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YouTube Transcript Generator — Text, SRT & Summary

Paste any YouTube URL to extract the full spoken transcript. Toggle timestamps off for clean text, download .SRT/.VTT subtitles, or run an AI summary — free, no signup.

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YouTube Transcript, Subtitle & Summary Capabilities

More than a raw caption dump: filter keywords, switch languages, strip timecodes for essays, or condense 90-minute talks into structured notes.

Plain Text Mode

Instant Timestamp Toggle

Uncheck 'Show Timestamps' to merge fragmented 3-second caption lines into clean, readable prose ready for Notion, Google Docs, or ChatGPT.

Subtitle Formats

.SRT, .VTT & .TXT Export

Generates millisecond-accurate SubRip (.srt) and WebVTT (.vtt) files compatible with Premiere Pro, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, and VLC.

Language Tracks

Multi-Language Switcher

Detects every manual creator subtitle track and auto-generated caption language attached to the video so you can switch languages on the fly.

AI Synthesis

1-Click Video Summarizer

Distills long lectures, podcasts, and earnings calls into an executive overview, bulleted key takeaways, and timestamped chapter highlights.

How to Get a YouTube Transcript or .SRT File in Seconds

Extract verbatim text, caption files, or condensed study notes in three steps.

1

Paste Any YouTube Video or Shorts Link

Copy the watch?v=, youtu.be/, or /shorts/ URL of any lecture, interview, or tutorial and paste it into the transcript generator above.

Pro tip: Videos with the [CC] icon on YouTube provide full word-for-word spoken transcripts; if a creator disabled captions completely, our engine falls back to structured description chapters.

2

Switch Languages, Filter Keywords, or Strip Timestamps

Click Get Transcript. Use the language dropdown if multiple tracks exist, type in 'Search words...' to jump to exact quotes, or uncheck 'Show Timestamps' for clean paragraphs.

Pro tip: Pasting into an LLM prompt, Obsidian note, or academic citation? Unchecking 'Show Timestamps' cuts token overhead by ~25% while keeping every spoken word.

3

Copy Text, Download .SRT/.VTT, or Click AI Summarize

Copy the entire transcript to your clipboard in one click, download .SRT/.VTT/.TXT files locally, or hit AI Summarize for instant bulleted takeaways.

Pro tip: Drop a downloaded .SRT file into the same folder with the exact same filename as your .mp4 video—VLC and PotPlayer will overlay subtitles automatically.

.SRT vs .VTT vs Clean .TXT vs AI Summary: Which Export Fits Your Task?

Choose the exact text format tailored to video editing, note-taking, accessibility, or rapid research.

Export OptionTimecode StructureTypical File Size (30-Min Talk)Software CompatibilityPrimary Use Case
Clean Text (Timestamps Off)None — continuous prose paragraphs~22 KB (~4,200 words)Notion, Obsidian, Word, Google Docs, Claude/ChatGPTEssay quotes, blog repurposing, study notes, LLM prompting
Timestamped .TXT[MM:SS] prefix per spoken cue~30 KBAny text editor, Markdown PKM apps, legal/journalism logsFact-checking exact quotes with fast timestamp verification
SubRip (.SRT)00:01:12,450 --> 00:01:15,800~42 KBPremiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, Final Cut, VLC, HandBrakeVideo editing subtitle tracks, offline movie captions, translation
WebVTT (.VTT)WEBVTT + 00:01:12.450 cues~40 KBHTML5 <track> web players, LMS course platforms, VimeoEmbedding accessible closed captions on websites & online courses
AI Video SummaryOverview + Bullets + Chapter MM:SS~2 KB structured digestOne-click clipboard copy for Slack, email, or study cardsTriaging 60-minute podcasts in 20 seconds before watching

All text exports are encoded in standard UTF-8 with HTML entities (&quot;, &#39;, &amp;) automatically decoded into clean punctuation.

Caption Availability, Fair-Use Limits & Intellectual Property

Verified:

Transcript extraction is 100% free with no word-count paywall or login wall—even on 3-hour podcasts generating 25,000+ words. Accuracy depends on the video's underlying caption source: creator-uploaded human captions are ~99% accurate, YouTube's automatic speech recognition (ASR) is ~92–96% accurate on clear audio, and silent/un-captioned music videos return description metadata chapters.

Spoken scripts, lectures, and creator monologues remain the intellectual property of their authors. Use extracted transcripts for personal study, accessibility, search indexing, quoted commentary under fair use with attribution, or editing your own channel's captions—never plagiarize whole transcripts as duplicate blog posts.

Optimized Workflows & Practical Use Cases

How students, creators, and professionals save hours using browser-based conversion.

YouTube to Text: Turning Hour-Long Lectures into Searchable Study Notes

Reading is roughly three times faster than real-time listening. When you are researching a specific API flag buried forty minutes inside a developer conference talk, or reviewing five semesters of recorded biology seminars before an exam, scrubbing back and forth on a video timeline wastes hours.

Using our YouTube to text workflow extracts the complete spoken monologue in under three seconds and displays the live word count right at the top of the workspace. Type any technical term into the instant search box to isolate every timestamp where the speaker mentioned it, or toggle timestamps off to copy clean, continuous text straight into Notion, Obsidian, Anki, or Google Docs.

YouTube Subtitle Downloader: Millisecond-Accurate .SRT & .VTT for Editors

Video editors, localization translators, and course builders rely on a fast YouTube subtitle downloader whenever they need standard SubRip (.srt) or WebVTT (.vtt) timecode files. Copy-pasting text manually out of YouTube's built-in 'Show transcript' sidebar strips out end-timestamps and breaks line numbering, making the text useless inside Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut.

Our exporter rebuilds strict sequential cue indices and `HH:MM:SS,mmm --> HH:MM:SS,mmm` start-and-end boundaries automatically, while decoding ugly raw XML entities like `&#39;` back into clean apostrophes. If a creator published manual English, Spanish, Japanese, and German tracks, the language dropdown lets you export every single .SRT track cleanly in seconds.

YouTube Video Summarizer: Triage Long Podcasts & Panels Before Watching

Not every 2-hour podcast episode deserves two hours of your calendar. Clicking the 'AI Summarize' button turns this page into an instant YouTube video summarizer that reads the extracted transcript and produces a three-part briefing: a concise executive overview, bulleted key takeaways, and timestamped chapter highlights.

Researchers, product managers, and students use the summary view to decide in twenty seconds whether a video actually answers their question—and if it does, they use the chapter timestamps to jump straight to the exact five minutes that matter, or pair the notes with an offline MP3 download for their commute.

YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Generator — Frequently Asked Questions

Answers covering timestamp removal, missing captions, multi-language .SRT files, and AI summary accuracy.

Paste your YouTube URL, click Get Transcript, and uncheck the 'Show Timestamps' box in the toolbar. The display immediately switches from line-by-line timecodes to clean continuous text, and clicking 'Copy Clean Text' copies pure prose to your clipboard.