Transcription: Best Free Way to Automatically Transcribe Video (Audio to Text)

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: Transcribing your Videos is a great way to easily repurpose content or generate video descriptions. Here’s the BEST way to automatically Transcribe Video or Audio (and it's free!)

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Transcription: Best Free Way To Automatically Transcribe Video (Audio to Text)

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Transcribing your videos is a great way to easily repurpose your content or generate video descriptions. Here’s the BEST way to do transcription automatically (oh, and it’s also free!).

You might have heard Google (Google Now), Apple (Siri) and Microsoft (Cortana) have been investing a LOT in their virtual assistant apps over the past few years. The voice recognition in these services is getting pretty amazing - even for my Aussie accent! With the amount these guys are investing, it's not hard to see why they can generate results a lot of the built-for-purpose software packages just cant match when transcribing audio.

I'll show you how to make the most of these services for transcribing your videos - the best free way to automatically transcribe video: Audio to Text.


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Hi, guys.
Justin Brown here.
Transcribing your
videos is a great way
to repurpose some of
your video content.
There's a ton of
options out there
to help you automate the
transcribing process.
But unfortunately, and maybe
it's just my Australian accent,
but none of them seem
to work really well.
Well, good news.
I have two options for you,
and both of them are free.
So you might have heard that
Google, Apple, and Microsoft
are currently spending a
ton of money on building
and refining their virtual
assistant apps so Google Now.
There's Siri.
And these apps rely heavily
on voice recognition
in order to deliver
us the results.
So what we looked
at was how we can
tap into their voice
recognition technology
and use it to transcribe videos.
So the first method
I'm going to show you
is using your computer or
laptop and using Google Docs.
So open up a new
Google document.
Now, click on Tools,
and pick Voice Typing.
So this enables
voice recognition
for your Google doc.
So if you click the
microphone and start to speak,
then everything
that you say will
be typed out into the document.
So when you use this
principle, and click Record,
and click Play on a
video, whether it's
on YouTube or on
your hard drive.
And let Google Docs
transcribe everything
that said in the video.
So in my test, this
is almost perfect.
I've had to make a
couple of minor changes,
but overall, this
performed way better
than any other software
I've ever tried.
OK, so method 2 is very similar.
We're going to play back
a video on your computer,
and we're going to use your
phone to do the transcribing.
Now in theory, this
should work a bit better
because the microphones in your
phones are so much more precise
and will pick up less
background noise.
So how you do this is you
open up a word processing app
on your phone.
Whether it's an Android
phone or an iPhone,
open up a word processing
or note taking app.
And on your keyboard when
you go to do text input,
there's the microphone
button down at the bottom.
So when you've
selected voice input,
that's when you hit play
on your video content.
And then hold your
phone near the computer
so that it's going to
transcribe everything
that it hears from the video.
Well, I hope that helps
you transcribe your videos.
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