From spoken video to usable text
Video is a great way to explain and a terrible way to store information. You cannot paste a video into an email, search inside it with Ctrl+F, or quote it in a report. Converting a video to text fixes all of that in one step. This page takes any public YouTube link and returns everything that is said as plain text, in seconds and for free.
The output comes in two flavors. With timestamps on, every line shows when it is spoken, which is ideal for referencing and note-taking. With timestamps off, the words flow as continuous prose that pastes cleanly into Google Docs, Notion, WordPress or wherever your writing lives.
Text is the universal format
Once a video becomes text, everything downstream gets easier. Writers mine interviews for quotes. Marketers turn webinars into landing page copy. Analysts feed earnings calls into spreadsheets and language models. Accessibility improves too: text can be read by screen readers, skimmed by people in a hurry, and understood by anyone who cannot turn the sound on.
The conversion here is deliberately literal: you get the actual words, not a paraphrase, so nothing is lost or invented. When you do want the machine to think for you, the buttons under each result do it on this page: an AI summary with a timecode on every point, a question answered from the transcript, or a moment found by description. Batches of many links run here too, on a paid plan. Our Telegram bot is an optional extra for translation into another language and PDF export. Reading the plain text itself stays free.