Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Proust
Transcribe YouTube videos like a pro
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Proust launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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YouTube transcript download and generation, 100% Free
2023 · its alternatives →
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Convert YouTube videos to text instantly
Mar 2026 · getyoutubetext.com · its alternatives →
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Spoke▲254Share video summaries and transcripts of your conversations.
2020 · meetingbaas.com · its alternatives →
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Transcriptly▲14YouTube transcript tool to repurpose your content
2025 · transcriptly.live · its alternatives →
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Spoke Enterprise▲133Share video summaries and transcripts of your conversations.
2020 · its alternatives →
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Turn Any Video Into Accurate, Editable Text
Sep 2026 · store.rubibot.org · its alternatives →
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Convert YouTube videos into text and summarize them.
2024 · its alternatives →
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Turn audio and video to text and subtitles in minutes
2021 · speechtext.ai · its alternatives →
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I originally added this to my site to speed up my video editing process. Last year I started a youtube channel and for some of my longer videos it's annoying to rely on youtube or capcut to transcribe when Whisper is open source. Capcut also recently updated their T&Cs to say they own your content if you use their app, so I cancelled my subscription. Another use-case I have is recording my claude prompts as audio, transcribing them, and then pasting them into my terminal. I mostly work on the CLI (claude, ffmpeg, whisper), but I wanted to make a browser version. Not reinventing the wheel…
2025 · meetcosmos.com · its alternatives →
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perfect for creators, researchers, students, and AIbuilders
2025 · youtubetranscripts.tech · its alternatives →
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Turn any YouTube video into text, captions, and transcripts.
2025 · youtubescribe.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, ExpoReader is a viewer for YouTube videos that shows the transcript of the video, and generates a shareable URL for a completely readable version of a video. I built it because I wanted helpful tutorials without having to watch an entire video. In a later version, I was thinking it could be cool to show other screenshots from the video throughout the transcript, but there’s really no easy way to do that outside of downloading the video and taking clips from there. If anyone has any good suggestions, I’m all ears!
2022 · exporeader.com · its alternatives →
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There have been many existing projects that transcribe YouTube videos with Whisper and its variants, but most of them aimed to generate subtitles, while I had not found one that priortises readability. Whisper does not generate line break in its transcription, so transcribing a 20 mins long video without any post processing would give you a huge piece of text, without any line break or topic segmentation. This project aims to transcribe videos with that post processing. Any feedback here, or on Github issues, would be very appreciated.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source macOS video transcriber that builds a self-organizing knowledge base 🐝 - itsfabioroma/transcribee
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transcribe any video and chat with AI about the content
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built Transcrib.ee to help me generate transcripts for lectures on YouTube with no captions, especially multilingual lectures. I was constantly frustrated with videos that had no transcripts or inaccurate ones, so I built a tool and decided to share it with everyone. This tool uses Groq (an AI inference engine that's different from Grok and offers very fast processing) and OpenAI's Whisper model (really accurate in multilingual) to quickly transcribe any YouTube video, regardless of the language. It's been a game-changer for my studies! To make it even faster, I created a Chrome…
2024 · transcrib.ee · its alternatives →
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