Free YouTube to Transcript — AI Transcription

Paste any YouTube link and get an accurate, searchable transcript in seconds. Choose the best speech-to-text model for your language. Includes chapters, speaker labels, AI Q&A with citations, and full-text search across your transcript library.

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Paste your YouTube link into Transcribe.so, pick a speech-to-text model, and click Get Quote. You get free credits on sign-up — no credit card required. The transcript includes timestamps, chapters, speaker labels, and AI Q&A.

Yes — you get free credits when you sign up with Google. No credit card is needed. After that, pricing is pay-per-minute with no monthly subscription.

Transcribe.so supports 50+ languages with auto-detection. You can also manually select the language and pick the model with the lowest word error rate for that language.

Yes. Every transcript is fully searchable — find phrases by meaning across hours of recordings. You can also ask AI questions and get cited answers linked to the exact second in playback.

You get timestamped segments, auto-generated chapters, speaker labels (with GPT-4o), topic detection, AI Q&A with citations, subtitle export (SRT, WebVTT, karaoke VTT), and searchable playback.

Transcribe.so works with public and unlisted YouTube videos. Private videos cannot be accessed. For private content, upload the video file directly instead.

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