Convert any YouTube video to plain text you can paste anywhere. Free and instant.
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 pass the video to our Telegram bot for an AI summary, a translation into another language, a shareable PDF, or bulk conversion of many links at once. The plain text itself stays free, always.
How it works
Paste a YouTube link into the field above.
Press Convert to text and wait a few seconds.
Toggle timestamps off for flowing prose, then copy the text or save the .txt file.
Need more than text? Our Telegram bot summarizes, translates, exports PDF and processes videos in bulk.
Paste the link on this page and press Convert to text. The spoken words appear as text within seconds. Switch timestamps off to get clean paragraphs ready for pasting into a document.
Is YouTube to text conversion free?
Yes, fully. Converting, reading, copying and downloading the text costs nothing and needs no account. Paid AI features like summaries and translations live separately in our Telegram bot.
Can I turn a YouTube video into an article or blog post?
The text from this page is the raw material: everything said in the video, in order. Many writers paste it into their editor and rework it. If you want AI to do the first pass, the Summarize button sends the video to our bot for a structured draft.
Does it work for music videos and songs?
Only if the video carries a caption track with the lyrics. Many official music videos do. When a video has no captions at all, there is no text to extract and the page will say so.
What languages are supported?
Any language YouTube captions exist in, which is over a hundred. The text arrives in the original language of the video; the Translate button can then turn it into yours.