About TranscriptYT

TranscriptYT turns YouTube videos into text. Paste a link and you get the transcript with timestamps, ready to read, search, translate, summarize, or download. Developers get the same transcripts from an API and an MCP server for AI agents.

Who makes it

TranscriptYT is built and run by Aadit Shah, a sole proprietor based in Mumbai, India, who also runs the TechIsEasy technology channel on YouTube. The site has free tools for anyone who needs the text of a video, and a paid API that other products and AI agents are built on.

How the transcripts are made

Most transcripts are the captions a video already has on YouTube, uploaded by its creator or generated automatically by YouTube. We show them as they are, with a timestamp on every line, and say which kind you are reading. Translations are machine translations and are labeled as such.

When a video has no captions at all, signed-in users on a paid plan can have the audio transcribed by a speech-recognition model (Whisper large-v3). The audio is processed for that transcript only and then discarded. Summaries and notes are written by an AI model from the transcript and can contain mistakes, so check anything you plan to quote or publish.

What we don't do

We don't download, store, or redistribute videos or audio files, and we don't host videos. Every transcript links back to its video on YouTube, and the player on our pages is YouTube's own embed. TranscriptYT is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google.

How the site is paid for

The free tools are supported by ads on public pages and by paid API plans. Ads never appear in your dashboard or account pages. How advertising cookies work, and how to opt out, is explained in our Privacy Policy.

Contact

Questions, corrections, and feedback go to aadit@techiseasy.co.in or the contact form. If a transcript of your video shouldn't be listed here, email us with the link and we will remove its page.