Your YouTube lecture as notes in your language: the transcript, summarised and translated
Part of hearlog — Every format. Every language. One place to understand.
Who it's for
- Self-study learners — Turn a captioned YouTube lesson into notes in the language you think in.
- Students — Keep a revision note for every lecture video you watch, next to your class recordings.
- YouTubers — Get a captioned video back as text you can reuse for a description or a post.
Example
A Hindi economics lecture on YouTube
- You paste
- The link to a 50-minute captioned Hindi lecture on inflation.
- You get
- The transcript, Lecture notes with headings and key terms, and an English translation — saved as one note.
- You ask (Pro)
- "Make 3 practice questions on what the lecture said about repo rate."
- Example answer
- 1. What is the repo rate, and who sets it? 2. Why does the RBI raise the repo rate when inflation is high? 3. How does a repo rate cut reach home-loan EMIs? (Source: Economics lecture 3)
- You ask across videos (Pro)
- "What did sir say about inflation across my 5 economics videos?"
- Example answer — across videos
- In Economics lecture 3, sir said the RBI raises the repo rate to cool high inflation. In Economics lecture 5, he said food prices drive most of the rise in inflation. (Sources: Economics lecture 3, Economics lecture 5)
What Pro adds for YouTube
This is a Pro feature.
- Transcripts from captioned YouTube videos, saved inside your notes
- Chat across your video notes and recordings — ask once, get the answer and the note it came from
- Text from images and PDFs too, in the same notes
- Unlimited (fair use) transcription for recordings and uploads (free: 300 minutes a month)
Pro is ₹2,990/year (2 months free) or ₹299/month ($49 / $6.99 outside India). Free: 300 minutes a month.
Get Pro — ₹2,990/yearHow YouTube transcript extraction, translation and summarisation works
hearlog extracts the caption track from a YouTube video, cleans it into a readable transcript, and gives it back to you as notes: pick one of five summary styles, translate it in one click, and save it next to your class recordings.
It works only for videos that have captions — written by the creator or generated automatically by YouTube. Many lectures, interviews and talks have them, including plenty of Hindi, Telugu and Tamil videos, but not every video does. If a video has no captions, hearlog tells you; if you have the audio file, upload it on the Upload tab instead.
Because the transcript flows into hearlog's standard flow, you can translate a Hindi lecture to English, pull Key Points from a long talk, or keep a course's videos as notes next to your class recordings — powered by Google Gemini.
Keep a course's videos in one folder and (Pro) ask the whole folder one question — e.g. ‘What did sir say about inflation across my 5 economics videos?’
From URL to notes in 3 steps
- 1
Paste the YouTube URL
A youtube.com, youtu.be or Shorts link to a video that has captions.
- 2
Extract the transcript
hearlog reads the captions and returns a readable transcript after a short wait.
- 3
Summarise, translate, save
Choose a summary style, translate to 50+ languages, and save as a note or export PDF.
YouTube transcript extraction, translation and summarisation — FAQ
Can I extract transcripts from Hindi YouTube videos?
Yes, when the video has captions. hearlog Pro reads the caption track of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and other Indian-language videos. You then get a summary in the style you pick and can translate the transcript into 50+ languages. Videos without captions are not supported by this tab.
Does it work for YouTube Shorts?
Yes, hearlog accepts YouTube Shorts links as well as youtube.com and youtu.be links. A Short only gives a transcript if it has captions — added by the creator or generated by YouTube. Many Shorts have none, and then hearlog tells you so.
What if the YouTube video has no captions?
Then the YouTube tab cannot give you a transcript, and it says so. If you have the right to use the audio, upload the audio file on the Upload tab instead: hearlog transcribes uploads in every major Indian language, free within 100 minutes per file and 300 minutes a month.
How accurate are YouTube auto-caption transcripts?
The transcript is only as good as the video's captions. Captions written by the creator are usually cleaner; YouTube's automatic captions can have errors, more often in Hindi and regional languages. hearlog shows you the caption text so you can review and edit it before saving the note.
Can I summarise a long YouTube lecture?
Yes. After the transcript comes in, pick one of five summary styles — Lecture notes for headings and key terms, Key Points for a quick overview, Detailed for fuller notes, Concise for a short brief, or Meeting notes. Check the summary against the transcript for anything important.
Is YouTube transcription free on hearlog?
In the app, YouTube transcripts are a Pro feature: ₹299 a month or ₹2,990 a year ($49 / $6.99 outside India). The free plan covers recording and file uploads, 300 minutes a month with no card, plus transcripts, five summary styles, translation and PDF or Word export.
Does it work for Indian language YouTube channels?
Yes, for videos that have captions. Many Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali videos carry creator or automatic captions, but not all do. When they do, hearlog brings in the text and you can translate it to English or another of 50+ languages.
Can I save the YouTube transcript as a note?
Yes. The transcript opens in the same view as any recording: edit it, choose a summary style, translate it and save it as a note in your account. You can export it as PDF or Word, and on Pro you can chat with it alongside your other notes.
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