Podcasts, videos and lectures, turned into text you can reuse

Subtitles for YouTube from your transcript

Captions make a video watchable on mute and readable for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and they give YouTube the full text of what you say. With a Deshifr transcript it takes a few minutes:

1. Upload the video (mp4 or webm) or just its audio, and choose the language you speak in it.
2. When the transcript is ready, read it through, then choose Export → .srt. The file is split into captions of up to two short lines, each timed to the recording.
3. In YouTube Studio, open Subtitles, add a language, choose Upload file and then With timing, and upload the .srt.

The same .srt works in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut and VLC, and there's a .vtt (WebVTT) for video players on the web. Fix a misheard name in the file with any text editor before you upload it.

Show notes and chapters from the timecodes

Every sentence in the transcript carries the moment it was said, and clicking one plays the recording from there. Skim the transcript, note where each topic starts, and you have chapter markers for the video description (00:00 Intro, 04:12 The interview) and timestamps for the episode's show notes. Download the transcript as a .txt with a [mm:ss] timecode on every line, and draft the notes straight from it.

Lectures you can search instead of rewatch

A recorded lecture is hard to revisit: finding the five minutes about one formula means scrubbing through an hour of video. As text, it's a page you can read in ten minutes and search with your browser, and the timecode next to each sentence takes you back to that moment in the recording. It works for course authors turning lessons into handouts, too.

Share a transcript with your co-host or editor

Turn on a read-only link for any transcript and send it to a co-host, video editor or translator. They read the text with timecodes in their browser, or download it, without signing up. Tick "Include the recording" and they can play it too, jumping to any sentence; otherwise it stays private. You can switch the link off whenever you like.