Description

Sometimes you are watching a YouTube video and there is just too much to take in at once. Maybe it is a lecture, maybe a tutorial, maybe a long interview, and you think how nice it would be to have everything in writing so you can read it or search through it later. This is exactly where a transcript becomes useful. Instead of replaying the video again and again, you can just read the spoken content as text. Having the words in front of you can save a lot of time and also helps when you want to copy certain parts into your notes. The best thing is you do not really need any complex setup to get this, because there are tools online that can make the job easy. In this article we will go through what a YouTube transcript is, how it is useful, and what features these online tools usually offer, along with some common questions answered at the end.