The Transcript Desk: YouTube Transcript Editor

The Transcript Desk turns YouTube captions into polished, readable transcripts you can actually study, quote, and share. Use it when a long video has the ideas you need but the default YouTube transcript is too messy to read. The extension retrieves available YouTube captions, cleans up speaker turns and formatting, and presents the result in a focused transcript workspace. Key features: - Generate readable, professionally edited transcripts from YouTube videos - Preserve timestamps and speaker-friendly structure - Browse transcript pages without losing your place - Generate highlights after the professional transcript finishes - Translate transcripts into 15+ languages - Upload a manual transcript when automatic retrieval is not available - Store raw, processed, and highlight views locally for repeat use Perfect for: - Researchers and analysts working through long interviews - Founders, investors, and operators studying high-signal YouTube conversations - Students and creators who need clean transcripts for notes, quotes, and review - Anyone who wants the value of a long video without fighting the raw caption text The Transcript Desk also publishes selected cleaned transcripts on Substack and keeps an owned public archive for discovery. Changelog: 1.2.7 - Upgrade the default transcript model to Gemini 3.8 Flash with low reasoning for faster, high-context processing. 1.2.6 - Keep each 30-minute transcript page isolated during generation. - Recover more reliably from interrupted or retried transcript processing. - Show accurate generation progress and auto-start states. - Support YouTube Live URLs and cleaner raw transcript timestamps. - Keep transcript side panels independent across YouTube tabs. 1.2.5 - Bug fixes. 1.2.4 - Rename the extension to The Transcript Desk: YouTube Transcript Editor. - Align the in-extension header and Store Listing copy with The Transcript Desk. - Keep the same extension ID so existing users receive the update normally. 1.2.2 - Automatically generate highlights after the professional transcript finishes. - Raise the free trial quota to 15. - Polish the Transcript Studio UI with clearer labels and a cleaner highlights view. - Replace blocking pop-up alerts with inline toast notifications. - Improve verification flow clarity and overall reliability. 1.2.1 - Default to the Professional tab and auto-start processing when possible. - Show a friendlier guide on unsupported pages. - Improve verification and auto-processing flow stability.