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Transcribe Video Interviews Effortlessly

Paste the link to an interview on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, or Facebook and get the full dialogue as text you can paste into a doc, quote from, and summarize.

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How It Works

1

Paste the Interview URL

Copy the link to a video interview on YouTube, Facebook, or any supported platform and paste it into Scrivi.

2

Review the Full Transcript

Scrivi transcribes the entire interview and presents the dialogue as clean, readable text. Search for specific topics or copy key passages.

3

Extract Themes with AI

Generate an AI summary that highlights key themes, notable quotes, and discussion topics. Pro users can ask follow-up questions about the interview content.

Get the interview as text you can paste anywhere

Most people looking for interview transcription want one thing: the conversation as plain text they can paste into a document, an article draft, or a research file. Scrivi does that from a link. Paste the URL of a published video interview, click Transcribe, and the full dialogue appears as clean, readable text.

If the video has captions, which is the case for most interviews on YouTube, the transcript is ready in seconds and free on the free plan. Select the passage you need, copy it, and paste it into your doc. No download, no upload, no software to install.

From there you can go further: generate an AI summary with the main themes, search the text for a name or keyword, or ask a specific question about what the guest said.

Which interviews work

Scrivi reads videos by their public link on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook. That covers most published interviews: podcast-style conversations on YouTube, TV and news interviews reposted on Facebook or X, and short interview clips on Instagram and TikTok.

  • Public and unlisted YouTube videos, including long-form conversations.
  • Interview clips on Instagram Reels, TikTok, X posts, and Facebook videos, as long as the post is public.
  • Your own recorded interviews, if you upload them to YouTube as unlisted first.
  • Not supported: audio or video files from your computer, phone call recordings, and recordings stored in Zoom, Teams, or other tools behind a login.

Speaker labels and quotes

An interview has at least two voices, and a good transcript should show who said what. On paid plans Scrivi can detect the speakers in a transcript and label each segment. You can show or hide the labels while you read, so quotes are easy to attribute correctly.

For journalists and researchers the exact wording matters. The transcript keeps the language that was spoken, so an interview in French stays in French and you quote the original rather than a machine translation. Use your browser's search inside the transcript, or Scrivi's full-text search across all saved transcripts, to find the sentence you remember.

Scrivi does not promise a perfect verbatim record. Captions and speech-to-text can mishear names, jargon, or crosstalk, so check important quotes against the video before you publish them.

From one interview to a research project

Many jobs involve more than one interview: a series of expert conversations for an article, a set of user interviews for a product team, or public statements from several people on one topic.

  • AI summary: an overview, 6 to 10 key points, chapters that follow the conversation, and the main topics.
  • Ask AI (paid): ask what the guest said about a specific topic and get the answer with context.
  • Collections (paid): keep all interviews for one project in one place.
  • Research reports (paid): combine 2 to 5 interviews into one document with shared themes, agreements, and differences.
  • Batch transcription (paid): paste up to 10 interview links at once.
  • Export (paid): save transcripts and summaries as PDF, .txt, or .md.

A workflow for interview-based articles and studies

A clear workflow turns a stack of interview videos into finished work without rewatching any of them.

  • Transcribe each interview from its link. Captioned videos are free; videos without captions use AI audio transcription on a paid plan.
  • Generate the AI summary for each one. Read the overview and key points first to decide which interviews matter most.
  • Turn on speaker labels (paid) for the interviews you will quote from, so every statement is attributed to the right person.
  • Search the transcript for the topics in your outline and copy the strongest passages into your draft, together with the video link as the source.
  • Group the interviews in a collection (paid) and generate a research report across 2 to 5 of them to see where the voices agree and where they differ.
  • Check every quote you publish against the video. Names and technical terms are where captions and speech-to-text most often slip.

Common uses

Journalists pull quotes from published interviews without rewatching them. UX and market researchers compare what different users said about the same feature. Hiring teams review recorded candidate presentations that were shared as unlisted videos. Students cite interviews in assignments with the exact wording. Creators turn a long interview into a blog post, a newsletter, or a set of short clips by finding the strongest passages in the text.

What these jobs have in common is that the interview already exists as a video online, and the work starts once the words are on the page. Reading is several times faster than listening, and text can be searched, highlighted, and shared with a colleague who will never watch the full recording. A transcript also makes it easier to spot what was not said: the question a guest dodged, or the topic nobody brought up.

Plans and limits

Free: 20 caption transcripts a day across all platforms and 3 AI summaries a day, no credit card. Interviews without captions need AI audio transcription, which is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours) and Pro ($9.99 a month or $59.99 a year) and handles videos up to 3 hours long. Lifetime is $79.99 once.

Scrivi is not an upload-based transcription service. Tools such as Otter.ai, Descript, Rev, or Notta are built for files and meetings you record yourself. Scrivi is built for interviews that are already online, where pasting a link is faster than downloading and re-uploading the video.

Features

Full Dialogue Capture

Scrivi captures the complete spoken content of the interview so you can review every question and answer without re-watching the video.

AI Theme Extraction

Let AI identify recurring themes, key arguments, and notable moments across the interview, saving hours of manual note-taking.

Cross-Interview Analysis

Pro users can compare themes across multiple interviews using research reports. Ideal for journalists, researchers, and hiring teams.

Secure & Private

Interview transcriptions are stored securely in your account. Only you have access to your transcripts, and all data is encrypted in transit.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I turn a video interview into text I can paste?
Paste the interview's link into Scrivi and click Transcribe. The full dialogue appears as text. Select and copy the parts you need into your document; paid plans can also export the whole transcript as PDF, .txt, or .md.
Can Scrivi tell the interviewer and the guest apart?
On paid plans, yes. Speaker detection labels the different voices in the transcript, and you can show or hide the labels.
Can I upload an interview recording file?
No. Scrivi works from links to public or unlisted videos on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook. To transcribe your own recording, upload it to YouTube as unlisted and paste that link.
Is interview transcription free?
For interviews with captions, yes: the free plan includes 20 caption transcripts and 3 AI summaries a day. Interviews without captions need the $2.99 Day Pass or Pro for AI audio transcription.
How long can an interview be?
Caption reads have no length limit. AI audio transcription on paid plans handles videos up to 3 hours.
Can I compare several interviews?
Yes, on paid plans. Add the transcripts to a collection, select 2 to 5 of them, and generate a research report with the shared themes and differences.
Can I ask questions about an interview?
Yes, on paid plans. Ask AI lets you type a question such as what the guest said about pricing or which examples they gave, and answers from the transcript so you do not have to search for it yourself.
Will the transcript be translated into English?
No. The transcript stays in the language that was spoken. You can choose the language of the AI summary in your settings.

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