Transcribing a YouTube Video With Otter for Quotes You Can Use
You don't need the creator's permission to learn from a talk, but you do need a clean transcript. Otter gets you most of the way.
Otter's killer is the live transcript, but for a YouTube talk you'll use the import path: drop the audio in and let it process. The accuracy on clean speech is high; on a panel with cross-talk it gets messy, and you should expect to correct names.
The workflow that pays off: transcribe, then search the transcript for the one claim you're citing. Otter's search across your library means next month you'll find the quote in seconds instead of rewatching twenty minutes.
Speaker labels are worth enabling before you start. A transcript with 'Speaker 1 said' is useless for quotes; one with real names lets you attribute correctly, which matters if you're quoting someone in writing.
Don't treat the auto-summary as the source. It's a map, not the territory. Pull the exact line from the transcript so you don't misquote a 'ums' away detail the summary flattened.