Free Chrome extensionWhy use an extension instead of a transcript website?
Transcript websites make you copy the video link, paste it into a form, wait, and then read the result on a separate page — away from the video. Every time you want to check what was said at a particular moment you switch tabs and scrub through the player.
VoxCue keeps the transcript next to the video. The line being spoken is the one in front of you, and clicking any line moves the player there. For long lectures, interviews and tutorials, that turns a transcript from something you read afterwards into something you navigate with.
What if the video has no captions?
On YouTube, VoxCue reads the video’s own caption track first — manual captions where the creator uploaded them, otherwise YouTube’s automatic ones — which is why the transcript appears almost instantly.
When a video has no captions at all, VoxCue can listen to the tab’s audio instead and transcribe it live as the video plays. It only ever captures the tab you started it on, never your microphone.
Get more than the words
Once a transcript is open, VoxCue’s AI can turn it into an executive overview, a list of key takeaways and clickable chapters — useful when you need the substance of a two-hour video without watching all of it. See the AI YouTube video summarizer for how that works.
Who uses it
- Students. Pull the transcript of a lecture to quote it accurately and revise from text.
- Researchers and journalists. Find and cite the exact moment something was said, with its timestamp.
- Content creators. Repurpose a video into a blog post, newsletter or show notes.
- Anyone short on time. Skim a long video as text and jump only to the parts that matter.