How to Transcribe Audio and Video from YouTube and 1,000+ Platforms in 100+ Languages

If you've ever tried to transcribe a YouTube video, a Zoom recording, or a TikTok clip in a language other than English, you know the pain. Most transcription tools only handle file uploads. Some only support English. And almost none of them give you a way to translate the result into another language without leaving the app. I spent months building Vocova to fix this. In this post, I'll walk through the real problems with transcribing multilingual audio and video content — and how I approached solving them. The Problem: Transcription Is Still Fragmented Here's what a typical multilingual transcription workflow looks like today: Download the media — Use a third-party downloader to save the video from YouTube or TikTok Find a transcription tool — Upload the file to a speech-to-text service Wait for the result — Get back a wall of text with no speaker labels Translate manually — Copy the text into Google Translate or DeepL Format for export — Manually create subtitles or documents Each s