Transcript Study View

A calmer path through video

Read the talk.
Keep your place.

Turn the official transcript of a YouTube video or TED talk into a quiet reading page—with paragraphs, timestamp trails, local highlights, and optional browser voice.

Get the free extension See the reading view

No account · No upload · No AI rewrite

Paper terraces form transcript-like paragraphs beside a copper path leading toward a cobalt moon.
Every paragraph leads back to the moment it came from.
Official captions onlyTimestamp reversibleHighlights stay localYour browser can read aloud

From watching to studying

One click changes the medium,
not the meaning.

  1. 01

    Open a supported talk

    Choose a YouTube video or TED talk that provides an official transcript to you.

  2. 02

    Open Study View

    The extension gathers only the timed text already present on that page and shapes it into readable paragraphs.

  3. 03

    Follow your own trail

    Search, adjust spacing, listen with browser TTS, save local highlights, or jump back to any timestamp.

The reading surface

Made for the way attention actually moves.

Skim the page, slow down, hear a paragraph, then return to the exact moment. Study View keeps those choices close without crowding the text.

  • Comfortable 68-character reading measure
  • Dyslexia-friendly spacing and type option
  • Keyboard paths for searching and moving
TED · OFFICIAL SOURCE

How curiosity changes the route we take

0:42

We do not always need a faster answer. Sometimes we need a clearer path through the material in front of us.

1:18

The useful shift is not away from listening, but toward choosing the form that lets attention settle.

2:03

And because the timestamps remain, the original voice is never more than one step away.

Private by construction

The transcript never needs to leave your browser.

Captured text lives only for the browser session. Highlights and reading preferences are stored locally. There are no accounts, analytics, remote transcription calls, or media downloads.

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Free and open source

Choose your browser.
Take the quiet route.

Version 1.0 · Install from the packaged build. Store listings can follow after pilot testing.

Chrome & Edge

Download, unzip, then load the chrome-mv3 folder from your browser’s Extensions page with Developer mode enabled.

Download for Chromium

Firefox

Download, unzip, then load the manifest temporarily from about:debugging for the pilot build.

Download for Firefox
Step-by-step Chromium install
  1. Download and unzip the package.
  2. Open chrome://extensions or edge://extensions.
  3. Turn on Developer mode.
  4. Choose “Load unpacked” and select the chrome-mv3 folder.
  5. Pin Study View, open a captioned talk, and select the extension.