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.
Estimate this recording
Runs entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded.
Drop an audio or video file, or click to choose — it stays on your device.
How it works
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Paste or upload
Paste the video's link — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and more — or upload the file yourself.
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Transcribe
We pull the audio and transcribe it with timestamps, usually in minutes.
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Export
Copy the text, or export TXT, SRT, VTT, PDF or DOCX.
Why ScribeToAny
- Transcribes full-length YouTube videos, podcasts, and video essays: download the video or audio file first, then drop it here.
- Bypasses YouTube’s low-quality auto-generated captions with state-of-the-art Whisper AI models and smart punctuation.
- Supports multi-hour documentaries and interviews up to 5 GB with speaker diarization and 8 export formats.
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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