How to YouTube Videos Transcribe Automatically 2020

How to YouTube Videos Transcribe Automatically 2020

However, many of us may not know YouTube comes with many useful features like translation for titles and descriptions and YouTube keyboard shortcuts, etc. So, there are ways with which you can transcribe YouTube videos. The speech recognition software has improved a lot; you can get a reliable automatic transcription that can be quickly edited to perfection with little to no effort.

It’s almost easy to transcribe YouTube videos as YouTube automatically transcribes most of the videos as soon as they are uploaded. In this article, I’ll show you two ways to make YouTube video transcriptions for totally free.

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Method 1. Copy/Paste YouTube transcript

Greatest of the YouTube videos are automatically transcribed utilizing Google’s Speech Recognition technology. There is also a possibility that the video owner may have personally transcribed the video and made it available for the readers.

Whatever the problem is, you can easily access the transcript and copy it along with timestamps.

Here’s how to take it:

1. Click on the More button here the video and select Transcript from the menu.
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3. Here you’ll be asked to select a language. Make your choice, and you’ll look a full transcript along with timestamps.
4. You click and drag to highlight all the text and press Ctrl + C to copy the text. You can paste this text everywhere, and your transcript will be ready to.
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YouTube automatically highlights words that it might have chosen wrong, making it easy to edit the transcript. You click on the CC button under the YouTube player to allow subtitles, and you will see the subtitles in white.

Still, the subtitles with gray color are the ones that might have some mistakes. You can see this to improve the transcription fast. Although take keep in mind that subtitles uploaded with the video owner will not have decrepit words.

Method 2. Transcribe with Google Doc

The over two methods work fine when an automatic or owner-uploaded transcript of the YouTube video is available. Still, suppose you need to transcribe a video without an available transcript. In that case, you can use the Google Docs’ built-in voice typing feature to listen to the video audio and automatically type everything.

It is recommended to get the PC directly listen to the audio coming out of its speakers to have an acceptable quality transcript.

Here is how to make it:

1. In Windows, next right-click on the sound icon in the taskbar and choose Recording devices.
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3. Now, choose “Stereo Mix” from the list and click “Set Default” to set it as the recording’s default source.

In case the Stereo Mix option isn’t supported by your PC’s sound card (like mine), you can now download and install the VB Virtual Audio Cable tool and make a choice in the same menu.

After installing the tool’s drivers, you should look a “Cable Output” option in the same sound options. Choose this option and then click ” Set Default.”

After that, your PC will listen to the audio coming out of the speakers for recording purposes. Now you need to start Google Docs Voice typing and the required video simultaneously to activate the transcription.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Open Google Docs in Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers (Voice Typing isn’t supported in non-Chromium browsers).
2. Forthwith create a new document and choose “Voice typing” from the Tools menu on top.
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4. A small box will show up with a microphone icon in the middle. Click on it to start recording.
5. Move to the YouTube video tab also play the video. Google Docs will automatically type when people speak in the YouTube video.

Of course, this method will take as much time as the video’s duration, but in the end, you’ll have a fair transcript of the video. Google Docs Voice typing has support for over 40 languages, and you can click on the Voice typing box menu and change the language.

The resulted transcript should be as right as YouTube’s automatic captioning service as both utilize the same Speech Recognition technology.

Conclusion

I like watching YouTube videos with captions turned on, and I can confirm that YouTube automatic subtitles are perfect and make very some mistakes. Also videos with minor background noise are transcripted with great skill.