Fetch the transcript of any video free, then turn it into your language in one tap.
Watch in any language, read in yours
Most of the world's best video content is locked behind a language you may not speak. Conference talks in English, engineering tutorials in German, cooking channels in Japanese. The transcript is the key: once the spoken words become text, translation becomes trivial. This page hands you that text free, for any public YouTube video with captions.
From there you have two roads. The quick one: press Translate and our Telegram bot returns the transcript in your language, timestamps intact, in about a minute. The flexible one: copy the transcript from this page into DeepL, Google Translate, ChatGPT or any tool you trust. We never lock the text away from you, so your translation workflow is your choice.
Context makes translations good
There is a reason translated transcripts read better than YouTube's auto-translated captions. Caption lines are short fragments, and translating fragments one by one strips away context: pronouns lose their referents, idioms fall apart, and sentences break mid-thought. A transcript keeps whole sentences together, so the translation engine understands what is actually being said.
Students use translated transcripts to follow foreign lectures. Localization teams draft subtitle translations from them. Businesses read what competitors say in overseas markets. And language learners do the smartest trick of all: reading the original and the translation side by side, which turns any YouTube video into a bilingual textbook.
How it works
Paste the YouTube link above to load the original transcript free.
Press Translate to send it to our Telegram bot, or copy the text into any translator you like.
Receive the transcript in your language, with the original timing preserved.
Need more than text? Our Telegram bot summarizes, translates, exports PDF and processes videos in bulk.
Load the transcript on this page first, it is free. Then either press Translate to have our Telegram bot do it in one step, or copy the text and paste it into any translation tool you already use. The transcript itself is always yours to copy.
Can I translate a transcript into any language?
The bot translates between all major languages, and since the transcript is plain text, external tools like DeepL or Google Translate accept it too. Fetch once, translate anywhere.
Will the timestamps survive translation?
In the bot, yes: it translates line by line and keeps every timestamp attached to its sentence. If you paste the text into a generic translator, keep the timestamps toggle on and most tools will preserve them as plain text.
Is this better than YouTube auto-translated captions?
Usually. YouTube machine-translates caption lines one at a time, with no context, which produces choppy results. Translating the full transcript lets the translation engine see whole sentences and paragraphs, so the output reads far more naturally.
Can I get a translated summary instead of the full text?
Yes. In the Telegram bot, request a summary and set your language: you get the key points of the video already translated, which is often faster than reading a full translated transcript.