This website is called ViddyScribe. The voice is… well, it’s human and alright. Dunno if I’d want to listen to it for hours, but it works. I think the voice they chose is from California — very light — though I’m not great with accents, so I could be wrong.
Enough of the negativity; why would a grumpy sod like me actually get excited about this? Simple: they have a one‑minute trial period. You can try any YouTube video and it just works. I’ve tested it on The Last of Us, a marble‑run video, and one more I’ve already forgotten.
One issue is that the AI doesn’t know who the characters are. For example, I played a clip of Abby from The Last of Us Part II, and it just said “a woman does X,” not “Abby does X.” But for what it is, it’s not bad.
Here’s the link:
ViddyScribe — https://viddyscribe.com.
YouTube video talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvPTYT6_r0.
By Brad, 20 August, 2026
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needs work
I decided to test this out on a youtube video I was already watching. I pasted the link in the edit box on the Realtime page. The only audio description that came up was at the very end of the video, leaving the rest of the video without description. I'm on the free plan, so the video was under five minutes long. How can I get an entire you tube video described and not just the end of it?
I don't know.
I didn't sign up but it worked for me, I just pasted in the video and it described from the beginning. hmm what happens if you press zero as in to go to the start of the video? From what I understand it should work with no issues...
I don’t really like AI descriptions
I really don’t like AI voices doing audio description. It’s so weird. We’re just not there with synthesized voices and infections yet even with the AI voices so they just put expressions in really bad places so that’s why I don’t really go for that. But I hope this is cool for some people that wanna check it out.
had to sign up
Before I started watching that vidoe, I looked for a box or something I coild put the link in. I didn't find one on the main page, unless I'm missing something. After I signed up. I was able to watch that video, and that's where I noticed no audio description was being given.
this is where you go.
https://viddyscribe.com/realtime
the websites a bit tricky, the menu button didn't work so I had to go into focus mode and arrow down to the menu items. it's a bit clunky. you get 15 minutes for free and you can email them for more if you need to. honestly? I'm very impressed with the survice. I don't know what back end AI he's using but it's honestly amazing.
You can remove your account.
I've done it as I know I'd not use the service that much even if it is great, but i bring this up because so many services these days don't allow you to do that.
Re: needs work
Hi treky fan, I’m Aaditya, one of ViddyScribe’s co-founders. Sorry it didn’t work properly when you tried it. We’ve since fixed the playback issue you described.
If you feel like giving it another go, you can now search YouTube directly on the Realtime page. If you still run into trouble, let me know here and I’ll help!
Thanks, Brad! A few updates since you tried it
Hi Brad, Aaditya here, one of ViddyScribe’s co-founders. Thanks for sharing this and for the honest feedback!
We’ve addressed the screen-reader menu issue you mentioned. We’ve also added YouTube search directly at https://viddyscribe.com/realtime, so you can find something to watch without copying links between sites.
Really appreciate you testing it across different videos and helping others find their way around.
@Aaditya this has gotten so much better!
man it's a huge shame about the 15 minutes thing, so i hope that can be extended, I know I can contact you guys and maybe i wil, any sneak peaks to any up coming features to get excited about next month or something like that?
I checked out the rat king fight with the last of us and man if you can get expressive voices, thes are nice but some kind of neuroTTS would be amazing, I'd evne be willing to pay for hooking an 11labsAPI from your end but even now this is huge.
Any plans to update the youtube search, so far it shows 20 odd items even if there's more.
I'm definitely giving this an 8 out of 10. Man if we could some how name the people or have this as an offline survice where you can type in names and such or even better ask the LLM more about thing x, that would be the dream.