Paste a YouTube link get the transcript back.
Speaker-labelled, word-level-timestamped, fully editable. Works with public YouTube videos in 100+ languages. Most one-hour videos finish in two to four minutes.
What you get
What a usable YouTube transcript actually needs.
Speaker labels
Whisper alone can't tell speakers apart. We run pyannote diarization on every job so two-host shows, panels, and Q&As come out as 'Host:' / 'Guest:' instead of one wall of text.
Word-level timestamps
Every word carries a start time. Click any word in the viewer to seek the original video. Required when you're cutting Shorts or fact-checking a quote.
Five export formats
TXT for blogging. SRT and VTT for captions. DOCX for show notes. JSON if you're indexing or feeding an LLM. One transcription, all five exports — no re-runs.
Edit and re-export
Every transcript opens in our editor. Fix a misheard word; the SRT and VTT update in place. No round-trip through a desktop captioning app.
Why a real transcript matters
YouTube auto-captions vs a real transcript.
✗ YouTube's auto-captions
Free, but stripped: no punctuation, no speaker labels, broken into ~3-second chunks. Useful for accessibility, useless for anything else.
- No speaker labels — two-person shows merge
- No punctuation, no paragraphs
- Choppy 3-second segments, no flow
- Often missing for non-English content
- Can't export DOCX or JSON
✓ A real Whipscribe transcript
Speaker-labelled paragraphs with full punctuation, click-to-seek, and every export format. Actually usable for a blog post, show notes, or a Short.
- Speaker labels on every line
- Properly punctuated paragraphs
- Word-level timestamps
- 100+ languages, auto-detected
- TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, JSON — all five
Sample output
Speaker-labelled. Click-to-seek. Exportable.
This is what a real YouTube transcript looks like. Click any word to jump the video; edit any line and the SRT updates with it.
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
Word-level. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Per-word timing + speaker IDs.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
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
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited Claude chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited Claude chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
YouTube transcript questions, answered.
Do I need to download the video first?
No. Paste the YouTube URL — we ingest the audio server-side. The video stays on YouTube; we never re-upload or re-host it. Required: the video must be public or unlisted-with-the-link, not private. Premium / members-only videos are not accessible.
How long does a one-hour video take?
Two to four minutes for English on a clean recording. Slightly longer for low-resource languages or heavy background music. You'll see live progress in the queue. We send a browser notification when it's done.
What happens to copyrighted content?
We require a rights attestation at upload. For YouTube URLs the gate is stricter — we only ingest videos you own or that carry a Creative Commons license. We do not transcribe a copyrighted music video on someone else's channel.
How accurate is it?
Whisper-class accuracy: under 5% Word Error Rate on clean two-speaker English audio, higher on noisy field recordings or thick accents. Editing one or two words manually is faster than fighting a worse engine.
Can I get just the captions, not the whole transcript?
Yes. Export SRT or VTT and ignore the rest. Both files are word-level-timed and ready to drop into YouTube Studio, Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or any HTML5 video player.
Is my YouTube URL or transcript stored anywhere?
Transcripts in your library are retained for 365 days; you can delete any item from your account settings. We never train AI models on your audio or transcripts.
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