Long episodes are the normal case
Podcast episodes run long: an hour is common and three hours is not unusual. RocketScribe splits long audio into chunks and processes them in parallel, so an episode comes back in minutes rather than in real time. The check step shows the episode's length before anything is fetched.
Copy the video's address, press Import from link in the upload box above and paste it. The youtube.com/watch and youtu.be forms both work. RocketScribe shows the title and length first, then fetches only the audio track and transcribes it.
What podcasters do with a transcript
If the podcast is yours, the transcript is raw material for everything around the episode:
- Show notes and episode descriptions written from what was actually said.
- A full text version on your website, which makes the episode searchable.
- Corrected captions for the YouTube upload, exported as SRT or VTT.
- Pull quotes for social posts and short clips, found by searching the text.
- Timestamps for chapters in the description, taken from the transcript's start times.
Hosts, guests and the bits in between
A two-host show with a guest has three voices that often overlap. Speaker identification, on paid plans or with a Minute Pack, labels them; rename each once and the transcript updates. Laughter and crosstalk are where lines most often merge or go missing, so check those passages against the player.
Sponsor reads, intro music and outro stingers are transcribed too when they contain speech. Delete them in the editor if you want a clean conversation, or leave them in if the transcript is meant to match the published episode word for word. Guests calling in from a phone line or a laptop microphone come through with less detail than the studio hosts, so their lines are the ones to read most carefully. A long musical intro with no speech can occasionally produce a stray line; remove it like any other mistake.
Listeners and researchers
For episodes from other shows, a transcript lets you find the ten minutes you care about in a three-hour conversation, quote a guest accurately, or keep notes on a series. Search the text for a name or topic, click the line, and the player starts right there, which is far quicker than dragging through a long timeline. Export TXT or DOCX for notes and CSV if you are comparing what was said across many episodes, for example tracking how often a topic comes up over a season.
Only transcribe videos you have the right to use. A transcript of someone else's video is fine for your own notes and research; republishing it may need the owner's permission.