Transcribe YouTube Video

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Convert audio or video into text transcriptions - a free online service for speech recognition

Key Advantages

Accuracy
Accuracy

Turn any audio into accurate text, no matter the sound quality (example) and (example)

Speaker Diarization
Speaker Diarization

Get a transcription with speakers identified — you can rename them (example)

Lightning Fast
Lightning Fast

Transcribe one hour of audio or video in just 10 minutes!

Many languages
Many languages

Transcribe audio and video in 90+ languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, etc.

Security & Privacy
Security & Privacy

Your privacy is our top priority. We do not store your files or transcriptions after you delete them. All data is encrypted during uploading to ensure your information remains secure.

Subtitles Ready
Subtitles Ready

Download transcript as subtitles and use them with your video.

Transcribe YouTube video — a quick way to turn any YouTube clip into a structured text document. Speech2Text converts spoken audio into readable paragraphs you can save, edit, and use in notes, articles, or reports.

YouTube is used everywhere: education, marketing, journalism, research, and personal projects. Often you need the content of a video in text form — whether it’s an interview, lecture, presentation, tutorial, or analysis.

Why transcribe YouTube videos?

Study notes from lessons

Students and teachers can turn lessons, talks, and webinars into text-based notes for later review.

Blog and content creation

Turn a YouTube video into a ready-made draft for a blog post, newsletter, or social media copy.

Quoting and analysis

It’s easier to search, bookmark, and quote from text than to scrub through a video timeline.

Captions and localisation

Once you have a transcript, you can adapt it for subtitles, translations, and multi-language audiences.

How does Speech2Text work?

You simply paste the YouTube URL, and the service automatically transcribes the video to text. The engine recognizes speech, splits the transcript into paragraphs, restores punctuation, and can add timestamps for navigation.

Benefits

— Fast processing, even for long videos and recordings.

— Over 90 supported languages and accents for global audiences.

— Runs in your browser — no software installation required.

— Export the transcript as a document or subtitle file for flexible use.

— Designed for teams and individuals who regularly work with video content.

Start for free

You can start for free and see how quickly Speech2Text handles your own channel or playlist. Paste a link, transcribe your YouTube video into text, and decide how to best reuse the content in your workflow.

FAQs

Paste the YouTube link into Speech2Text, choose language and options (timestamps, speaker labels), start transcription, then edit and download the final text.

Yes. You can use a free tier to test transcribe YouTube video online and evaluate speed and accuracy before moving to larger workloads.

No. To transcribe video from YouTube you only need a shareable URL. The service fetches the audio track and creates a transcript directly from the link.

Yes. An AI engine powers transcribe YouTube video AI, handling speech recognition, punctuation, and paragraphing without manual intervention.

Yes. Long-form content is supported; processing time depends on length and audio quality, and timestamps help you navigate the transcript.

You can save YouTube video to text transcription as standard documents for editing or as subtitle-ready files for captioning on different platforms.

Speech2Text supports 90+ languages and accents, making it suitable for international channels, multilingual courses, and global marketing content.

You control your links, files, and transcripts. You can remove processed content from your account at any time if you no longer need it.