How to get a YouTube transcript without an API
2026-10-01
No API key, no code, no quota. Three ways to pull a timestamped YouTube transcript — including the one that also gives you SRT and an AI summary.
sipdigest.com blog
Practical guides about transcription, subtitles and AI summaries — written by the team behind sipdigest.com.
SRT vs VTT: which subtitle format should you use?
2026-09-18
Both are plain-text subtitle formats, but the differences decide where each works: video editors, web players, YouTube re-uploads, podcast videos.
Podcast transcription accuracy: what actually matters
2026-09-02
Word error rate is only part of the story. Speakers, timestamps, punctuation and summaries matter more than a 1% WER difference.