Fetch the transcript of any video free, then turn it into your language with the translator of your choice.
Watch in any language, read in yours
Most of the world's best video content is locked behind a language you may not speak. Conference talks in English, engineering tutorials in German, cooking channels in Japanese. The transcript is the key: once the spoken words become text, translation becomes trivial. This page hands you that text free, for any public YouTube video with captions.
From there you have two roads. The flexible one: copy the transcript from this page into DeepL, Google Translate, ChatGPT or any tool you trust. The quick one: send it to our Telegram bot, which returns the transcript in your language with the timestamps intact. Either way we never lock the text away from you, so your translation workflow is your choice. If the point is to understand the video rather than to keep every word of it, the AI summary on this site is written in the language of the page you are reading.
Context makes translations good
There is a reason translated transcripts read better than YouTube's auto-translated captions. Caption lines are short fragments, and translating fragments one by one strips away context: pronouns lose their referents, idioms fall apart, and sentences break mid-thought. A transcript keeps whole sentences together, so the translation engine understands what is actually being said.
Students use translated transcripts to follow foreign lectures. Localization teams draft subtitle translations from them. Businesses read what competitors say in overseas markets. And language learners do the smartest trick of all: reading the original and the translation side by side, which turns any YouTube video into a bilingual textbook.
How it works
Paste the YouTube link above to load the original transcript free.
Copy the text into any translator you like, or send it to our Telegram bot, which keeps every timestamp attached to its line.
Receive the transcript in your language, with the original timing preserved.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate a YouTube video transcript?
Load the transcript on this page first, it is free. Then paste the text into the translation tool you already use, or send it to our Telegram bot, which translates line by line and keeps the timing. Translation is the one step this site does not run itself, so the text is deliberately yours to take anywhere.
Can I translate a transcript into any language?
Since the transcript is plain text, tools like DeepL, Google Translate or ChatGPT accept it as it is, and our Telegram bot covers all major languages with the line structure intact. Fetch once, translate anywhere.
Will the timestamps survive translation?
With our Telegram bot, yes: it translates line by line and keeps every timestamp attached to its sentence. If you paste the text into a generic translator, keep the timestamps toggle on and most tools will preserve them as plain text.
Is this better than YouTube auto-translated captions?
Usually. YouTube machine-translates caption lines one at a time, with no context, which produces choppy results. Translating the full transcript lets the translation engine see whole sentences and paragraphs, so the output reads far more naturally.
Can I get a summary in my language instead of the full text?
Yes, and that one runs here. The AI summary is written in the language of the page you are on, so a Spanish or Japanese page returns the key points of an English video in that language, each with the moment it was said. One summary a day is free for videos up to 1.5 hours.