YouTube Transcript Generator

Yes, you can! You can simply copy and paste the URL of the video into our uploader, select between automatic and human services, and the transcript should be available in a few minutes for the automatic option and 24 hours for the human option.

Ongoing technological advances continue to improve the accuracy rate of automatic transcription. Depending on the audio quality, speaker accents, and technical jargon, our automatic transcription software can achieve up to 98% accuracy. And with the help of our professional transcribers, your transcripts can be 99% accurate.

HappyScribe is a great tool to transcribe online videos to text for free. Its YouTube transcript generator allows you to transcribe up to 10 minutes of video with a free trial. You just need to follow these steps:

1. Import your YouTube video: Select 'Public link' in the uploader and paste the URL of your YouTube video to import it to HappyScribe. The first 10 minutes are free!
2. Select the language of the video: HappyScribe supports more than 150 languages, dialects, and accents.
3. Choose "Machine generated" or "Human made": HappyScribe has an automatic transcription software that is lightning fast and up to 98% accurate. With the human service, your transcript will be transcribed and proofread by an expert and native speaker and delivered with 99% accuracy.
4. Receive your transcript: The automatic transcription software will convert your YouTube video to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your video). If you select the human service, your transcript will be ready within 24 hours.
5. Click on "Export" and choose your preferred file format: Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, HTML, and many more.

Yes. Paste the YouTube link, and once your transcript is ready, click "Export" and download it as TXT, DOCX, or PDF, or as SRT and VTT subtitle files. You can keep or remove the timestamps when you export. HappyScribe transcribes the audio itself, so it also works for YouTube videos that have no captions.