How to get a transcript for a YouTube video

While I edit and write “how-to” articles, I also sometimes find myself in need of how-to directions myself. But when I do a search for guidance on, say, a difficult crochet stitch, it often helps to have a blow-by-blow text explanation that I can have handy without having to sit and watch a video over and over again.

For that, there’s YouTube’s automatically generated transcript. A transcript is not only useful when you want to view a text...