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Paste a YouTube link get the transcript back.

Speaker-labelled, word-level-timestamped, fully editable. Works with public YouTube videos in 100+ languages. Most one-hour videos finish in two to four minutes.

30 min / day free · no signup · $1/hr PAYG after · Never used to train AI · Or upload a file →

✓100+ languages · ✓Speaker diarization on every job · ✓Word-level timestamps · ✓Never used to train AI

What you get

What a usable YouTube transcript actually needs.

Speaker labels

Whisper alone can't tell speakers apart. We run pyannote diarization on every job so two-host shows, panels, and Q&As come out as 'Host:' / 'Guest:' instead of one wall of text.

Word-level timestamps

Every word carries a start time. Click any word in the viewer to seek the original video. Required when you're cutting Shorts or fact-checking a quote.

Five export formats

TXT for blogging. SRT and VTT for captions. DOCX for show notes. JSON if you're indexing or feeding an LLM. One transcription, all five exports — no re-runs.

Edit and re-export

Every transcript opens in our editor. Fix a misheard word; the SRT and VTT update in place. No round-trip through a desktop captioning app.

Why a real transcript matters

YouTube auto-captions vs a real transcript.

✗ YouTube's auto-captions

Free, but stripped: no punctuation, no speaker labels, broken into ~3-second chunks. Useful for accessibility, useless for anything else.

No speaker labels — two-person shows merge
No punctuation, no paragraphs
Choppy 3-second segments, no flow
Often missing for non-English content
Can't export DOCX or JSON

✓ A real Whipscribe transcript

Speaker-labelled paragraphs with full punctuation, click-to-seek, and every export format. Actually usable for a blog post, show notes, or a Short.

Speaker labels on every line
Properly punctuated paragraphs
Word-level timestamps
100+ languages, auto-detected
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, JSON — all five

Sample output

Speaker-labelled. Click-to-seek. Exportable.

This is what a real YouTube transcript looks like. Click any word to jump the video; edit any line and the SRT updates with it.

transcript · whipscribe.com/view/youtube-transcript

HOST 00:00:08 So before we get into the bigger thesis, can you walk us through how you first got interested in this space?

GUEST 00:00:14 Sure. Honestly, the boring answer — I needed a transcript of my own meetings and the existing tools were charging me forty dollars a month. So I built one for myself.

HOST 00:00:25 And that became the company.

GUEST 00:00:27 Eventually. The first six months were just me using it; I didn't tell anyone. The day I shared it on Twitter we had three thousand people sign up in a week.

Export

One transcript. Five clean formats.

Every paid tier exports all five. The free tier exports TXT and SRT.

.txt

Plain text

De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.

.srt

SRT captions

Word-level. Every video editor reads this.

.vtt

WebVTT

HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.

.docx

Show notes

Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.

.json

Machine-readable

Per-word timing + speaker IDs.

Pricing

Honest pricing, no surprises.

Credits never expire. Upgrade or downgrade any month. Free tier resets daily — no signup, no card.

Free

$0/forever

Try every feature for 30 minutes a day. No card.

30 min / day
Speaker labels included
TXT + SRT export
No history retention

Try free

Pay-as-you-go

$1/hour

Best for one-off projects. Credits never expire.

$10 minimum top-up
Every export format
365-day history
API access

Top up

Pro

$8/month

Indie creators. 100 hours / month, all features.

100 hours / month
Clips + every aspect ratio
Branded captions
Priority queue

See Pro

Team

$29/month

Teams. 500 hours / month, shared workspace.

500 hours / month
Shared library
API + MCP for Claude
Workspace billing

See Team

FAQ

YouTube transcript questions, answered.

Do I need to download the video first?

No. Paste the YouTube URL — we ingest the audio server-side. The video stays on YouTube; we never re-upload or re-host it. Required: the video must be public or unlisted-with-the-link, not private. Premium / members-only videos are not accessible.

How long does a one-hour video take?

Two to four minutes for English on a clean recording. Slightly longer for low-resource languages or heavy background music. You'll see live progress in the queue. We send a browser notification when it's done.

What happens to copyrighted content?

We require a rights attestation at upload. For YouTube URLs the gate is stricter — we only ingest videos you own or that carry a Creative Commons license. We do not transcribe a copyrighted music video on someone else's channel.

How accurate is it?

Whisper-class accuracy: under 5% Word Error Rate on clean two-speaker English audio, higher on noisy field recordings or thick accents. Editing one or two words manually is faster than fighting a worse engine.

Can I get just the captions, not the whole transcript?

Yes. Export SRT or VTT and ignore the rest. Both files are word-level-timed and ready to drop into YouTube Studio, Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or any HTML5 video player.

Is my YouTube URL or transcript stored anywhere?

On the free tier nothing is retained — the transcript is generated, served to your browser, and dropped. On paid tiers transcripts live in your private library for 365 days; you can delete any item from your account settings.

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