Convert any YouTube video into clean, readable text with timestamps. Free, instant, and powered by AI.
Paste any YouTube URL to convert video to text
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Converting YouTube videos to text has never been easier. Whether you're working with a 2-minute explainer or a 3-hour lecture, our tool extracts the complete spoken content as clean, readable text with timestamps. This opens up a world of possibilities — from studying and research to content repurposing and accessibility. The text is fully searchable, copyable, and exportable in multiple formats.
Meeting recordings on YouTube? Extract the text and create minutes in seconds. Lecture videos? Turn them into study notes with AI. Product reviews? Pull out key quotes for marketing. Tutorials? Convert to written documentation. Podcasts? Generate show notes automatically. Every minute of video contains roughly 150 words of content — a 30-minute video is a 4,500-word document waiting to be used.
Text versions of video content serve multiple purposes: they improve SEO (search engines can index text, not audio), enhance accessibility (deaf/HoH audiences), enable faster consumption (reading is 2-3x faster than watching), and create repurposable content assets. Many successful content creators publish both video and text versions of their content, doubling their reach across search engines and social platforms.
Paste the YouTube URL above and click 'Extract Transcript'. The full text with timestamps appears in seconds.
Yes — we extract directly from YouTube's captions. Manual captions are near-perfect, auto-generated are 95%+ accurate.
Yes, no length limit. We've converted videos over 10 hours long.
Copy, search, export as TXT/SRT/VTT, or use AI to summarize, create quizzes, generate blog posts, and more.
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