YouTube Transcript Generator

What you get

• The full transcript, split into readable paragraphs with timestamps
• Export as plain text (.txt) or subtitles (.srt, .vtt) from the Summ app
• A 2-minute AI summary with key points and chapters, in 50+ languages
• Text-to-speech, so you can listen to the summary on the go
• Works with regular videos, YouTube Shorts, lectures, podcasts and live replays
• Thousands of videos already in our library show their transcript on this site

Who uses YouTube transcripts

Students turn lectures and tutorials into study notes. Writers and journalists pull exact quotes. Marketers repurpose videos into blog posts, newsletters and social posts. Researchers search long interviews for a single mention. People who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who just prefer reading, use transcripts to follow a video without sound.

A transcript is also the fastest way to check if a 40-minute video actually covers what you need before you commit to watching it.

Transcript vs. summary

A transcript is every word that was said. A summary is the short version: the main points in a couple of minutes of reading. If you need the gist rather than the full text, try the YouTube Summarizer or the Summ app, which writes summaries with key points and timestamps.

Where the transcript comes from

Summ uses the captions published with the video. These can be written by the creator or generated automatically by YouTube. Creator captions are usually very accurate. Auto-generated captions can have small mistakes with names and technical terms.

Prefer to do it on YouTube?

On a computer, open the video, click “…more” under it, then “Show transcript”. The transcript opens next to the video and you can select and copy it. It doesn't come with a download button, a summary or export formats, which is what Summ adds. Step-by-step: how to get the transcript of a YouTube video.