Transcription for YouTubers for the videos too long to caption by hand.
Paste the link to a long YouTube video or live replay and a 3-hour stream comes back as text, chapters and caption files in about 6 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A month of four weekly 3-hour streams plus eight 25-minute uploads is 920 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free.
From the upload to everything around it
One long video becomes the description, the captions and the clip list.
The long recordings a channel makes
Weekly livestreams that run two to four hours, long-form interviews and podcasts filmed for the channel, tutorials that grow past an hour, and a back catalogue of older videos nobody ever captioned. The speech in all of them is searchable material sitting inside a video player.
Links, not downloads
A public or unlisted YouTube link pastes straight in, and live replays work the same way once the stream has ended. Vimeo, Twitch and Kick links are fetched too. A raw file from your recording software uploads in the box here up to 500 MB, and a bigger one carries on at upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
A month on one pack
Four weekly 3-hour streams are 720 minutes; add eight 25-minute edited uploads (200 minutes) and the month is 920, on the $12 pack of 2,000 with 1,080 left over. Captioning a back catalogue of 100 older videos at about 45 minutes each is 4,500 minutes, which the $24 pack of 5,000 covers with 500 to spare.
What you can publish from it
Chapters with timestamps, which you can edit into the description; a brief with the thesis and takeaways for a community post; the names, numbers and dates you mentioned; and the questions the video answers, which make a ready FAQ. Guests are named in the summary and key quotes. SRT and VTT go back up as captions.
Why automatic captions are not enough
Your long videos say a lot more than a search engine can see.
✗ A long video with nothing around it
Three hours of talk sit behind a title and a thumbnail, and only viewers who watch to the end know what was in it.
- A description written from memory
- No chapters on a three-hour stream
- Guest names misspelled in comments
- Clip ideas lost in the replay
- Viewers asking when a topic came up
- An old catalogue that never got captions
✓ The video as text
Everything said, with the structure laid out, ready to reuse where viewers and search find it.
- A 3-hour replay readable after about 6 minutes
- Chapters with timestamps to edit into the description
- Takeaways ready for a community post
- Clip moments found by searching the text
- SRT and VTT caption files
- A whole catalogue done on one pack
Sample
A few minutes from the middle of a long livestream.
Illustrative lines written for this page; they do not come from a real channel. Timestamps count from the start of the replay.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
What creators ask about long videos.
Can I transcribe a YouTube video longer than 3 hours?
Yes. Each file or link can run up to 10 hours, and the speed stays at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 5-hour stream is ready in about 10 minutes. A live replay is fetched once the broadcast has finished and the replay is available.
Do I have to download my own video first?
No, a YouTube link is enough for public and unlisted videos. A private video cannot be fetched by link, so download it from YouTube Studio or use the file from your recording software and upload that.
Can the chapters go straight into my description?
They give you topics and start times to work from. Read them through before publishing: YouTube expects its own chapter format in the description, and you will often want to rename a chapter or merge two short ones so the list reads well to a viewer. That edit is the one thing worth doing on every video.
What will a month of streaming cost?
A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free. After that, a month that stays under 500 minutes fits the $6 pack, one under 2,000 the $12 pack, and a heavy month or a catalogue job the $24 pack of 5,000. Packs are one-time purchases and unused minutes stay on the account.
Will music and game sound end up in the captions?
No. Music, sound effects and crowd noise are left out, and the speech is transcribed. A song with lyrics in an intro will not appear in the captions, so add a short music cue yourself if you want one there.
Is my unreleased video kept private?
Uploads and fetched videos are transcribed on our own servers, and nothing is ever used for training. You can delete a video and its transcript from your Library at any time.
Related
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