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Open TranscriberAbout YouTube
YouTube is the world's largest video platform with 2.7B+ monthly active users and 500 hours of video uploaded every minute.
Scale: 2.7B+ monthly active users, 500 hours uploaded/minute
YouTube content spans 30-second Shorts to 8-hour livestream VODs; tutorial and educational videos average 10–20 minutes.
How to Transcribe YouTube Content
- Save an audio or video file from YouTube that you made or have the rights to
- Go to the Rewind.ai Transcriber
- Upload your file (MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A and more supported)
- Our AI transcribes it automatically in the detected language
- Download your transcript as text or SRT subtitles
Features
- ✓Runs on OpenAI Whisper
- ✓Detects the spoken language automatically across 99 languages
- ✓Timestamps and SRT subtitle export
- ✓Works with every YouTube content format
- ✓No sign-up to start
- ✓We never sell your files or use them to train models
Why Transcribe YouTube Content?
- Generating accurate captions for YouTube videos beyond YouTube's built-in auto-caption quality
- Converting YouTube lecture and tutorial content into written study notes and articles
- Creating multilingual subtitle files from YouTube content for international audiences
Platform Details
| Platform | YouTube |
| Category | social |
| Scale | 2.7B+ monthly active users, 500 hours uploaded/minute |
| Common formats | MP4, WebM, SRT |
| Languages | 99 |
| AI Model | OpenAI Whisper |
| Price | Free |
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YouTube transcription on Rewind.ai is a free AI tool. There's no charge and no sign up needed to start.
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We don't sell your data or use it to train models, and we delete it on request.
In most cases, yes. What you generate is yours to use, and commercial use follows our Terms and the license of the model that made it. Don't use other people's likeness or copyrighted material without permission.
YouTube transcription lets you start on free daily tokens and pay only when you need more, with token packs from $5 or a monthly plan.
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