Remove timestamps, [Music] tags, and caption artifacts from YouTube auto-generated transcripts. Get clean, readable text in one click.
⚠️ Words like like, actually, basically may appear legitimately in writing. They are unchecked by default — enable only if they are always filler in your transcript.
YouTube auto-generates transcripts using speech recognition for almost every video. When you export them, they come cluttered with timestamps before every few words, sound-effect tags like [Music] or [Applause], and sometimes speaker labels — all of which make the raw text nearly unreadable as a document.
Whether you're turning a video into a blog post, creating show notes, feeding text into an AI tool, or doing research, our YouTube Transcript Cleaner handles all of this automatically in your browser — instantly and privately.
0:00, 00:00, 0:00:00, 00:00:00[Music], [Applause], [Laughter], [Intro], [Outro], and moreOpen any YouTube video in your browser. Scroll down into the description area below the video title and click Show transcript — it appears near the bottom of the description (click "...more" first if the description is collapsed). A panel slides open on the right. Click inside it, select all text with Ctrl+A (or Cmd+A on Mac), copy with Ctrl+C, then paste directly into the input box above.