Best AI Tools to Extract YouTube transcripts

20 AI tools ranked

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TranscriptAPI.com is a unified YouTube data platform that delivers fast access to video transcripts, search results, channel videos, playlists, and new upload tracking through a simple REST API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. It extracts timestamped transcripts (with or ...

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Scribbe AI Note Taker is an iOS and iPad app that records in-person audio conversations—such as meetings, lectures, or personal dictation—then leverages advanced AI to automatically transcribe the speech, identify and separate speakers, generate concise summaries, extract action items, and ...

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AssemblyAI is a developer-centric Speech AI platform that automatically converts audio and video files, as well as live audio streams, into highly accurate text transcripts using its Speech-to-Text APIs. It extends basic transcription with Audio Intelligence capabilities, including summarization, topic ...

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Deepgram is a leading enterprise Voice AI platform that offers advanced Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and unified Voice Agent APIs. It specializes in high-accuracy, low-latency transcription of spoken language and full voice intelligence capabilities for both real-time streaming and batch ...

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Rewind Mobile, formally known as "Rewind - Truly Personalized AI" on the iOS App Store, was an AI-powered productivity tool developed by Rewind AI (later rebranded as Limitless AI) that served as a personal digital memory bank for iPhone users. ...

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MeetGeek is an AI-powered meeting assistant designed to automatically record, transcribe, summarize, and extract actionable insights from meetings across platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and even offline or uploaded recordings. It functions as a virtual notetaker that joins ...

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Cockatoo is an AI-powered speech-to-text transcription service that converts audio and video files into editable text or subtitles in seconds to minutes. It handles uploads across virtually all common formats and delivers transcripts with punctuation, capitalization, timestamps, and speaker identification. ...

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Supernormal is an AI-powered desktop application (available for Mac and Windows) designed to capture meeting audio and transform discussions into structured notes, summaries, action items, and—most notably—ready-to-use client deliverables. It operates as a bot-free tool that runs quietly in the ...

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AI Phone, available at https://www.aiphone.ai/, is a comprehensive AI-powered mobile application for iOS and Android that revolutionizes phone communications by combining real-time translation, transcription, summarization, and productivity tools. It enables users to conduct calls in their native language while providing ...

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HappySRT is an AI-powered online workspace designed to generate accurate subtitles (in SRT format) for videos and audio files, with seamless support for direct YouTube link pasting or file uploads. It automates the traditionally manual process of transcription and subtitle ...

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Deciphr AI is an AI-powered content repurposing platform that transforms audio, video, or text files—such as podcast episodes, webinars, or meeting recordings—into a wide array of structured outputs. It primarily automates the creation of detailed show notes, timestamps (chapters), transcripts, ...

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FastScribe is an AI-powered online service that automatically converts audio and video files into accurate, timestamped transcripts using advanced speech-to-text models. It handles speaker diarization, automatic punctuation, language detection, and optional filtering for cleaner output, turning raw recordings into editable ...

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Gladia is an AI-powered Speech-to-Text API platform that converts audio and video into accurate, structured text across 100+ languages. It supports both asynchronous (batch) transcription and real-time streaming with sub-300ms latency, powering applications that require reliable voice-to-insight conversion. Primary use ...

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Glasp YouTube Summarizer (accessible at glasp.co/youtube-summary and via its Chrome extension) is a free AI-powered tool that generates concise summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts of YouTube videos in seconds. It leverages multiple large language models—including ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Google ...

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Mumble Note is an AI-powered voice notetaking app primarily for iOS (with full Apple Watch support) that captures spoken words—whether ideas, meeting discussions, tasks, or lectures—and instantly transforms them into clean, structured, actionable notes. Using advanced AI, it handles transcription, ...

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Note67 is a free, open-source, local-first meeting notes assistant designed to capture audio from your microphone and system output during meetings or calls, transcribe it in real-time using on-device Whisper models, separate speakers, handle echo, and generate intelligent AI summaries ...

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Recallify is an AI-powered mobile app designed as a personal memory companion that captures conversations, lectures, thoughts, or documents through real-time audio recording and transcription or file uploads (PDFs, slides, notes, audio, video, and now .docx). It leverages natural language ...

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RevMaxx is an ambient AI medical scribe that quietly listens to clinician–patient conversations in the background, leveraging speech recognition and natural language processing to transcribe dialogue, extract clinical context, and automatically generate editable, specialty-specific SOAP notes complete with ICD-10, HCC, ...

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Sluqe is an AI-powered voice note and conversation platform that captures spoken thoughts through one-tap recording, delivers accurate transcription with speaker diarization, and automatically transforms recordings into organized, searchable insights. It goes beyond basic transcription by extracting key takeaways, decisions, ...

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ToWords is an AI-powered tool designed to convert YouTube videos (and other audio content such as podcasts, Zoom meetings, or Google Meet recordings) into fully structured, SEO-optimized blog posts. By leveraging natural language processing and models like GPT-4, it automates ...