Paste a YouTube Link. Get Notes, Flashcards & Quizzes.
TranscriptAI now transcribes YouTube videos, Vimeo, TikTok, and 10+ platforms: no downloads required.
We've been listening to what students, researchers, and content creators have been asking for most: the ability to transcribe online videos without downloading anything. Today, that feature is live.
Paste a YouTube link. Paste a Vimeo link. Paste a TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Loom, SoundCloud, or Spotify link. TranscriptAI extracts the audio, runs it through our AI transcription engine, and gives you a full transcript with speaker detection, plus structured notes, flashcards, quizzes, and summaries on top.
How It Works
The workflow is dead simple. No browser extensions. No screen recording. No file conversion. Just a URL.
- 1Go to your dashboard and click Import URL
- 2Paste any supported video or audio link
- 3Select your language and hit Transcribe
- 4TranscriptAI extracts the audio, transcribes it, and generates your study materials
The embedded video player appears right inside your transcript page, so you can watch the original video while reading along with the transcript, notes, and highlights.
Supported Platforms
We support every major video and audio platform. If it has a public URL and audio, TranscriptAI can transcribe it.
- YouTube: lectures, tutorials, podcasts, vlogs, shorts, live streams
- Vimeo: professional video content, course materials, documentaries
- TikTok: short-form content, educational clips, language learning
- Instagram: reels, IGTV, live recordings
- Twitter / X: video posts, Spaces recordings
- Loom: team walkthroughs, async meetings, product demos
- SoundCloud: podcasts, music analysis, audio interviews
- Twitch: stream VODs, gaming commentary, live lectures
- Spotify: podcast episodes (where publicly accessible)
- Facebook: video posts, live streams, group recordings
- Any direct link: MP3, MP4, WAV, or any public audio/video URL
Why Students Love This
Think about how you study right now. You find a lecture on YouTube. You watch it once. You try to take notes. You miss things. You rewatch parts. You spend 3 hours on a 1-hour video.
Now imagine: paste the link, wait 2 minutes, and you have a complete searchable transcript with AI-structured notes, ready-made flashcards, and practice quiz questions. That's the difference.
- Paste a Khan Academy lecture → get study notes with every concept explained
- Paste a conference talk → get action items and key takeaways
- Paste a language learning video → get vocabulary lists and flashcards
- Paste a podcast episode → get a full searchable transcript with timestamps
Embedded Video Player
When you transcribe a YouTube video, the original video embeds directly inside your transcript page. You can watch the lecture while reading the transcript side-by-side, with no need to switch tabs. For other platforms, you get a one-click link back to the original source.
Works With All Your Favourite AI Features
URL imports aren't second-class citizens. Every feature that works with uploaded audio works with URL imports too:
- HD Bullet Notes: 10,000+ word structured study notes
- AI Flashcards: spaced repetition cards from the content
- Quiz Mode: auto-generated practice tests
- Full Transcript: searchable, timestamped, speaker-labelled
- Smart Highlights: key points automatically extracted
- Vocabulary Analysis: technical terms explained in context
- Speaker Detection: identify and label speakers via diarization
- Translation: turn a transcript into any of 77 languages
Audio Files Still Fully Supported
URL import is an addition, not a replacement. You can still upload audio and video files directly (MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, MOV, AVI, MKV, all major formats), record live in your browser, or import PDFs for reading mode. Every input method feeds into the same powerful AI pipeline.
TranscriptAI supports 100+ languages with automatic language detection. Whether your YouTube video is in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, or Hindi, we've got you covered.
