What languages are supported?

YT Transcriber does not translate or transcribe audio — it fetches the caption track YouTube already has. That means the languages available for any given video are exactly the caption languages that video offers on YouTube. If a video has English captions, you get an English transcript; if it has Spanish captions, you get a Spanish transcript.

On YouTube, open the video, click the gear (Settings) icon on the player, then "Subtitles/CC". The list shows every caption language available for that video, including any auto-translated tracks YouTube provides. Whatever appears there is what YT Transcriber can pull.

Many videos only have YouTube’s auto-generated captions, which exist for a wide range of spoken languages but can be lower quality for strong accents, background noise, or technical vocabulary. Creator-uploaded (manual) captions are usually more accurate. Both work with YT Transcriber.

We do not transcribe audio that has no captions, and we do not translate a transcript into a language the video does not already provide captions for. If you need a language that YouTube does not offer captions for on that video, YT Transcriber cannot produce it today.