How much does it cost to transcribe a 2-hour YouTube video?
$5 for the whole video, paid once. The first 15 minutes are free with a free account.
How to transcribe a 2-hour YouTube video
Paste the video's link, read the opening minutes free, and unlock the full two hours for $5, one payment. The audio itself is transcribed, so the video does not need captions. Steps checked Oct 23, 2026.
Step by step
- Copy the link. Open the video on YouTube and copy its address. A share link works too.
- Paste it on the YouTube transcript page. Drop the link into the box on the YouTube transcript page. The audio is read from YouTube: nothing to download, nothing to install.
- Read the opening free. The first 5 minutes are free without an account, the first 15 with a free account, so you can check the quality before paying.
- Unlock the full two hours. One payment of $5 unlocks the whole video. No subscription.
- Copy or download. Copy the text, or download TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and PDF with timestamps.
Captions or no captions
YouTube's own "Show transcript" appears only when a video has captions. WhoScribe does not need them: it transcribes the audio, so a 2-hour lecture, podcast or livestream recording without captions works the same way.
What you get for a 2-hour video
- The full transcript of all two hours, with timestamps
- Downloads as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and PDF; SRT and VTT are timed subtitles
- Translation of the transcript into another language
Longer than two hours?
The same steps work for videos up to 10 hours: $5 per file, paid once, the same price at any length up to 10 hours.
FAQ
Questions before you upload
Does the YouTube video need captions?
No. The audio is transcribed, so videos without captions work the same as videos with them.
Can I get subtitles (SRT) for a 2-hour video?
Yes. An unlocked video downloads as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and PDF, and the SRT and VTT files are timed line by line.
Do I have to download the video first?
No. Paste the link; the audio is read from YouTube and nothing is downloaded to your device.
Transcribe a YouTube video
Paste the link. The first 5 minutes are free without an account, 15 with a free account. The whole file is $5, a one-time payment.
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