Transcriptly

Transcriptly is an online audio and video transcription tool for turning local media files or YouTube videos into text. It presents itself as a free service for creators, students, and professionals, and it also offers separate tools for YouTube transcripts, speech-to-text conversion, and file-based transcription.

Its main functions include generating transcripts from uploaded audio and video files or from a YouTube URL. The service says it can produce summaries and highlights with AI, and it describes its transcript output as high accuracy, with proper punctuation, timestamps, and speaker detection. Transcriptly also supports 98+ languages and accepts a range of audio and video formats, including MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A, MOV, MKV, AVI, and others listed on the page. In addition to transcripts, it supports subtitle downloads and multiple export formats such as SRT, VTT, TXT, CSV, PDF, and DOCX. The site also mentions an interactive transcript analysis feature that can summarize content, extract key points, and generate actionable insights.

The page names several intended use cases and audiences. It says the tool is for creators, students, and professionals, and it also highlights students and researchers, content creators, journalists and writers, and businesses and marketers. The described uses include converting lectures and interviews into searchable text, generating subtitles, repurposing video content into blog posts, transcribing interviews and press conferences, and analyzing webinars, meetings, competitor messaging, and customer feedback.

Transcriptly is delivered online through a website that supports file upload, drag-and-drop, and YouTube URL input. A developer-facing API is also listed, with a note that it supports batch processing of YouTube video transcripts. The site describes the service as free to use and says it includes 10 free credits monthly. It also refers to itself as an audio and video transcript generator and a complete toolkit for converting audio and video content to text.