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Upload your YouTube audio or video. You get a text transcript back in seconds.
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
- Download or save your YouTube audio/video file
- 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 faster-whisper (MIT licensed)
- ✓Detects the spoken language automatically across 99 languages
- ✓Timestamps and SRT subtitle export
- ✓Works with every YouTube content format
- ✓No sign-up to start
- ✓Your files are deleted after processing
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 | faster-whisper |
| Price | Free |
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YouTube transcription runs open-source AI models including Qwen 2.5, FLUX and Whisper. We update to newer models as they ship.
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