Chrome extension

PickScribe

Pulls a transcript from any video and lets you ask questions about it, get a summary or build flashcards instead of watching it all.

What it does

PickScribe pulls a transcript from a video and lets you ask an AI questions about it, request a summary or build flashcards. It suits students and researchers who want information from a video without watching it from start to finish.

Key features

  • Generates a transcript for the video you are watching
  • Lets you ask questions about the video and get answers from the transcript
  • Creates summaries, flashcards or social post drafts from the content
  • Switches transcripts between dozens of languages with one click

Use cases

  • Turning a recorded lecture into study flashcards
  • Finding what a speaker said about a specific topic
  • Reading a transcript in another language

Getting started

Open a video, load its transcript with PickScribe, then type a question or choose a summary option.

Good to know

Answers are based on the transcript, so visual content that is not spoken may be missed. Transcripts are processed by an AI service.