GASTON lets you download and transcribe almost any YouTube video into text. Just paste the video URL into the app and let Gaston handle downloading, transcribing, and even speaker detection for you, no browser extensions or third-party downloaders required.
Log in to your Gaston account. If you don't have one yet, create a free Gaston account.
After logging in, locate the Add media button in the upper right corner.
That's it. Gaston downloads the YouTube video, processes the audio, and transcribes it within minutes. Once it's done you can play it back, search inside it, export it, or translate it.
If you want to keep an eye on a channel going forward instead of transcribing a single video, take a look at the channel monitoring guide below, it transcribes every new upload for you automatically.
No. Paste the link and GASTON downloads the audio itself, with no browser extension or downloader needed.
Yes. Links from Facebook, Rumble and hundreds of other sites work the same way.
Yes. Add the channel as a source and its new videos get transcribed automatically (one channel on the free plan). With PRO you can also download and transcribe the channel's entire history.
It depends on the audio quality. For Slovak we publish our own measurements: GASTON's Slovak model averages a 6.65% word error rate across 8 test sets, about half the errors of OpenAI Whisper large-v3.
See the Slovak benchmarkOne file a day free. No credit card needed.