Twitch shows captions only when the streamer sends them. For everything else, paste the VOD or clip link and get one SRT or WebVTT file for the whole stream, up to 24 hours long, without downloading the video first. Put it on a YouTube re-upload, a clip edit or your own archive.
Without signing in: the first 30 minutes. A free account: up to 72 minutes per recording, within your remaining credits. Longer recordings return a preview.
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A past broadcast (twitch.tv/videos/…) or a clip link, straight from the address bar or the share button.
We process the available audio up to your plan limit. You can follow progress on the result page; processing time varies by length and source.
Download the subtitle file and load it in your editor, on YouTube, or in a video player next to a downloaded VOD.
Only when the streamer transmits captions during the broadcast, through a captioning extension or their encoder. Then a CC button appears in the player, live and on the VOD. Most streams send no captions, and a viewer cannot switch on captions that were never sent.
Yes, as one SRT file for the whole VOD. A long stream is transcribed in sections and stitched back together, so the cue times run from the first second to the last without restarting. One recording can be up to 3 hours on Essential, 6 hours on Growth and 24 hours on Pro. A free account takes 72 minutes; a longer VOD comes back as a clearly marked preview of its opening.
No. Paste the twitch.tv/videos/… link and we fetch the audio from Twitch ourselves: no MP4 to download, no audio to extract, no file size to stay under. The VOD has to be public and still on Twitch; subscriber-only VODs can't be fetched.
In YouTube Studio, open Subtitles and pick the video. Choose Add language, then Add under Subtitles, Upload file and With timing, and select the SRT. The cues line up when your upload starts where the VOD starts.
A transcript uses one credit per started hour, so a 6-hour VOD is 6 credits (12 with speaker labels). Growth is $9.99 a month for 400 credits and takes streams up to 6 hours. A free account gets 5 credits a month.
Not on Twitch itself. What you can do is generate a subtitle file from the VOD here and use it where you control the player: on a re-upload, in an editor, or in a desktop player alongside a downloaded copy of the VOD.
SubRip (SRT) and WebVTT (VTT), plus plain text. SRT is what most editors and YouTube expect; VTT is the web-player format.
Yes when the video starts where the VOD starts: every cue is timed from the beginning of the recording. If you cut the opening off in an edit, shift the subtitles by the same offset in your editor.
Yes, into 16 languages, with the timing kept, so the translated file drops into the same edit. A translation spends six credits per hour per language.
No. Subtitles are made from the speech on the audio track; chat is not part of the video.
About five minutes per hour of VOD, most of it the download from Twitch; a clip is done in well under a minute. The page shows an estimate while it runs, and the link keeps working if you close the tab.