Live YouTube Transcription beside the player: transcribe video to text, get youtube transcript, translate and download captions.
Users
274
+59 in 30 days
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#56K
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Version
1.0.6
updated 9 Oct 2026
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About YouTube Transcription
🎬 YouTube Transcription puts a live transcript panel next to the video
Open a clip and the transcription sits by it on the page. The line that is being said lights up like karaoke, and the list moves on its own, so you do not lose your place. YouTube Transcription is a quick way to transcribe video to text: you go from youtube to transcript on the spot, then read it, search it, copy it, translate it, or save it. It reads auto generated and manual captions, and a live stream as well once it is over.
🚀 How to get the transcription in four steps
1. Open a clip and press play.
2. The youtube transcript generator loads each line of the talk by itself.
3. Click to play: click a word, then Play from here, and the player jumps to that spot.
4. Read along, then copy it, translate it, or save it as a file.
Why people keep YouTube Transcription pinned
1️⃣ Karaoke highlight marks each line in time with the audio.
2️⃣ Auto scroll keeps the current line in view, and a tick on the scroll bar takes you back to it.
3️⃣ youtube transcript search marks every match, and you step to the next one or go back. Press / to open it.
4️⃣ Speed from 0.75x to 3x and a mute button sit in the panel, so you can skim a talk fast.
5️⃣ Reading mode: the top bar hides while the clip plays, so the transcription gets the full panel.
6️⃣ The panel takes the light or dark theme of the site. You can resize it or fold it into a small chip.
More tools in the same panel
▸ Translate subtitles into any language on offer for that clip, or show both at once, in step with the audio.
▸ An AI summary sums up a talk of up to about three hours. For a longer one it tells you how much it covers.
▸ Save up to five bookmarks per clip and click one to jump back to that spot.
▸ Share with a QR code: scan it on a phone to read the transcription and any summary there. The link runs out after 15 minutes.
Turn a clip, or the new uploads of a channel, into text
- youtube to text export as txt, docx, srt, or md, ready for any editor.
- A Timestamps switch adds or drops the time marks before you save.
- Copy it all with timecodes, copy just the words, or copy one paragraph.
- channel transcripts open in a reader tab when the run is done, with Show in folder, Open file, and Copy all.
Ways to use the youtube transcript extractor
💡 Study a lecture, then keep the transcription as notes to mark up and go over again.
📌 Draft show notes, blog posts, and social posts from a talk in a few minutes.
📍 Skim a long review by reading it, not by scrubbing the timeline.
🌍 Follow a clip in another language, with lines that keep pace.
📎 Keep a transcript with timestamps so each quote is easy to check.
Who uses YouTube Transcription
➤ Students turn a class into notes they can search before an exam.
➤ Creators turn one talk into a post, a thread, or an article.
➤ Researchers and journalists pull exact lines to quote, with no need to replay it all.
➤ Podcast fans catch every name, link, and quote as it goes by.
The download youtube transcript menu has 4 formats, and the youtube transcript downloader saves the file in a click. Want captions? Pick srt to download youtube captions or save youtube captions with the subtitle downloader for notes, slides, or a blog draft.
The youtube summary tool is a youtube video summarizer in YouTube Transcription: it writes a recap in the original language of the transcription, in short parts, each with a title. You can save it as a file. A channel run takes its time on purpose: the tab goes from one clip to the next, waits a bit in between, and stops early if the site starts to slow it down. You can stop a run and pick it up again later.
📌 How to get transcript of youtube video?
💡 Open a clip and press play.
📌 Does it read subtitles and captions?
💡 Yes. It reads youtube subtitles, auto generated or manual, and the captions of a live stream once it is over.
📌 Can I convert youtube video to transcript in another language?
💡 Yes. Pick a language in the Translate menu and the youtube video transcript switches to it, still in step with the audio.
📌 Can it transcribe youtube video to text and act as a subtitle downloader?
💡 Yes. It works as a youtube transcriber and a subtitle downloader: save the lines as srt, or as docx or md for a document.
📌 What if a clip has no captions?
💡 YouTube Transcription tells you so. The transcription comes from the captions a clip has, so with no captions there is nothing to show.
Add YouTube Transcription to Chrome and read, search, translate, and save the words of any talk.