YouTube Transcript Generator

YouTube's auto-captions are often missing, machine-garbled or disabled by the uploader. Download the video (or just its audio) with a browser extension, yt-dlp or an online downloader, upload the file to ScribeToAny, and get a clean, timestamped transcript you can search, quote and export.

Start transcribing freeFree plan: 2 files per day, 100 minutes per month. No credit card required.

How it works

1
Upload
Drop in an audio or video file, or paste a link. All common formats are accepted.
2
Transcribe
AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.
3
Export
Edit segments online, then export TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF or DOCX.

Why ScribeToAny

Upload MP3, MP4, M4A, MOV, AAC, WAV, OGG, OPUS, MPEG, WMA, WMV — audio is extracted from video automatically.
About 98 languages with automatic detection, powered by a Whisper-class engine on dedicated GPUs.
Eight export formats: TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF and DOCX — plus batch ZIP export.
Speaker recognition labels every segment. Click any sentence to replay the matching audio.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to download the video first?

Yes. Because of YouTube's anti-bot restrictions, ScribeToAny can't pull audio from a pasted YouTube link — download the video or audio to your device first (a browser extension, yt-dlp or an online downloader all work), then upload the file. Once uploaded it's treated like any other file: it counts toward the same quota (free: 2 files per day, 100 minutes per month), respects the same per-file duration limits, and produces the same editable, timestamped transcript with 8 export formats.

Is this better than YouTube auto-captions?

Noticeably better. YouTube auto-captions often lack punctuation, mangle names and technical terms, and are simply missing on many videos. ScribeToAny runs a stronger Whisper-class model with full punctuation and sentence structure, lets you edit any line, and exports to formats YouTube never offers — PDF, DOCX, JSON, TSV, CSV — alongside standard SRT and VTT subtitles.

Can I transcribe videos in other languages?

Yes — about 98 languages with automatic detection, so lectures in Spanish, interviews in Japanese or sermons in Portuguese transcribe just as well as English content. You can also transcribe any language straight into English. Mixed-language videos, common in tech talks, are handled as spoken.

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