The above two methods work fine when an automatic or owner-uploaded transcript of the YouTube video is available. Although do keep in mind that subtitles uploaded by the video owner will not have gray words. You can see this to easily amend the transcription. However, the subtitles with gray color are the ones that might have some mistakes. Just click on the CC button in the YouTube player to enable subtitles and you will see the subtitles in white.

YouTube automatically highlights words that it might have picked wrong which makes it easy to edit the transcript. You can paste this text anywhere and your transcript will be ready.

Now click and drag to highlight all the text and press Ctrl + C to copy the text.

Make your choice and you’ll see a full transcript along with timestamps.

Below you’ll be asked to select a language.

Click on the More button below the video and select Transcript from the menu.

Whatever the case is, you can easily access the transcript and copy it along with timestamps. There is also a chance that the owner of the video may have personally transcribed the video and made it available for the readers. Most of the YouTube videos are automatically transcribed using Google’s Speech Recognition technology.

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