TranscriptYTHow to get the text of a YouTube audiobook
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Copy the audiobook link
Public-domain audiobooks, story readings, and narrated chapters all work.
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Paste it above
The narration loads as text with a timestamp on every line.
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Read along or find your place
Search for the last line you remember and click it to resume listening there.
Read and listen together
Following the text while you listen helps with focus and with learning a language. Click any line to replay a passage.
For language learners
Pick a reading in the language you're learning, turn on translation, and read both lines while the narrator speaks.
Need more?
Need transcripts at scale? Use the API
The same transcripts are available through the YouTube Transcript API: timestamped JSON, text, SRT, VTT, CSV, or Markdown, 150+ languages, and AI transcription for videos without captions. Or connect the YouTube MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and just paste links in chat.
curl "https://transcript-yt.com/v1/transcript?url=5f3Pn-N6yLc&format=text" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ts_live_..."
Common questions
Can I find where I stopped in a long audiobook?
Yes. Search the transcript for a name or phrase you remember and click the line to jump the video there.
Is the text the same as the book?
It's the captions of the reading, which follow the narration closely. For an exact text, check a published edition.
Can I translate an audiobook?
Yes. Translate the transcript into 150+ languages and read it next to the original.
What if the video has no captions?
The free tool reads the captions YouTube already has, creator-uploaded or auto-generated, and most videos with speech have them. For a video with no captions at all, click Transcribe the audio with AI: it's on paid plans and credit packs, at 1 credit per minute.