Transcribe TED Talks
to Downloadable Text
TED shows a transcript but gives you no way to download it — and most TEDx talks have none at all. SubGrab turns any public talk into timestamped text you can keep.
Why SubGrab for TED Transcripts?
Quote a Talk Without Rewatching It
Students, writers and speakers transcribe TED talks to cite them accurately, pull the exact wording of an idea, and turn an 18-minute talk into notes in seconds.
How to Get a TED Transcript
Copy the talk URL
ted.com/talks/... works with or without www, as do the translated /lang/ pages and TED's embed links. Copy a single TALK — a /series/ or /playlists/ link names a collection, so open the talk you want first.
AI transcribes the talk
SubGrab pulls the audio and runs Whisper, so it works on TEDx talks that never got an official transcript.
Download it
TXT, SRT, or VTT — the download TED's own transcript panel does not give you — or generate an AI summary.
What people use TED transcripts for
Citing a talk accurately
Students and writers quote the exact wording with a timestamp instead of paraphrasing from memory.
TEDx talks with no transcript
The independently organised TEDx events are most of TED's catalogue and routinely publish without one.
Studying delivery
Speakers read the text of a talk they admire to see how the argument is actually structured.
SubGrab also transcribes
More on TED transcripts
Walkthroughs, comparisons, and use cases from the SubGrab blog.
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