YouTube to text, even when a video has no captions
Many YouTube transcript tools only copy the caption track YouTube already has. If a video has no captions, or the auto-captions skip punctuation and misspell names, those tools have nothing useful to give you.
This YouTube to text converter downloads the video's audio and transcribes it with AI speech recognition, so any public video with speech can become text: lectures, interviews, podcasts, tutorials, and Shorts.
- Works when captions are turned off or were never added.
- Adds punctuation and paragraphs, so the transcript reads like a document.
- Detects the spoken language automatically and recognizes 100+ languages.
Download YouTube transcripts as TXT, DOCX, or SRT
Once the video is transcribed, the transcript is saved to your history and you can download it in the format you need. That makes this page a YouTube transcript downloader and extractor as well as a generator.
- TXT for notes, research, and pasting into AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude.
- DOCX for editing, sharing, and client delivery.
- SRT subtitles with timestamps for video editors and YouTube Studio.
- Timed text with a timestamp on every line, plus speaker-labeled text on paid plans.
YouTube's built-in transcript vs. an AI transcript
YouTube shows a transcript for many videos: open the video on a computer, expand the description, and click Show transcript. That works for reading along, but the text is split into short caption lines, often has no punctuation, and is awkward to copy out.
Use an AI transcript when you need the whole video as clean, punctuated text, when the video has no transcript at all, or when you need a file you can edit or turn into subtitles.
Transcribe and translate YouTube videos in 100+ languages
The spoken language is detected automatically, so a Spanish, Hindi, or Japanese video is transcribed in its own language. Add a translation when you start the job and you get the transcript in your language next to the original.
Translated subtitles keep the original timestamps, so you can export them as SRT for YouTube or any video player.