How To Transcribe a YouTube Video | 2015

Hello Readers,

Today we'll look at the possible ways to accurately transcribe an YouTube video into text. The best possible way to transcribe an YouTube files is by hiring a video transcriptionist. The other method is to transcribe the YouTube video by yourself with the help of a transcription software

 

 

Method 1: Hire a YouTube Transcription Service

Step 1: You need to first send a link to the YouTube file to the Youtube transcription service. The company will then most likely save the video file or extract the audio from the video. From here on they will begin transcribing the video file into text. 

Step 2: Transcript document specifications

Now there are two ways in which they can send back the transcribed text back to you. The first is the vanilla version of transcript. In the vanilla version the transcription company would follow their own Transcript word doc format. 

The second method is to give the specifications to the video transcriptionist before proceeding with the transcription work. You can specific the font styles you need, the font size, margins on either sides, page numbering whether required or not etc. Also you can tell the transcriptionist to send the final transcript in the form of a PDF, Word Doc, .DocX or in a Notepad .TXT format. 

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Method 2: Transcribe YouTube videos by yourself (With Steps )

The cheapest way to transcribe a YouTube video would be doing it yourself. Though this takes a lot of efforts to transcribe especially if you typing related work is not your forte. However hiring a video transcription service is out of reach then you can transcribe the video with the following steps:

Step 1: Extract the audio from YouTube video. There are many online services which allows conversion of YouTube into audio. The one that we recommend is Keepvid.com. You can just enter the YouTube URL and click submit. The website will then give you all the options in which you would like to save the audio or the video including the bitrate quality of the desired output files. For typing purposes you need only the audio portion. So click on Save audio.

Step 2: Download a free transcription assisting software such as Express Scribe. And install it. After you have installed the software you will be asked to load the audio file. Just drag the audio file into the Express Scribe window and the audio will load into it very easily. 

Step 3: Open a blank word document file. You are now ready to transcribe the YouTube file and can begin playing the audio in Express Scribe by clicking on "Play Arrow" button. 

Method 1 or Method 2? Which is better?

As a Etranscriber.net, we understand that sometimes budget and availability of funds could be a concern. Hence in those cases the best choice is to transcribe the video by yourself. If cash is not an issue, then without a doubt we highly recommend hiring a video transcription service similar to Etranscriber.net.

Syncing subtitles (or transcribe text) into a YouTube Video

The spoken text from YouTube videos can be made to appear as subtitles on the bottom of the YouTube files. Here is how to sync subtitles:

Step 1: Upload the YouTube video.

Step 2: Create a notepad .TXT file. And insert the transcribed text into this file.

Step 3: Go to Special Editing Tools

Step 4: Click on the icon called "Captions"

Step 5: Click on "Upload a file"

Step 6: Upload the .TXT file when you click "Upload a file"

YouTube accepts both closed caption and open captions. For closed captions you need to mention breaks, pauses, laughter, applauses in [Applause], [laughter] format. There is no need to timestamp the transcribed text as Google's Speech Recognition Technology will automatically sync the subtitles for you. Awesome, isn't it? 

Interesting YouTube Marketing Tip:

Did you know? YouTube transcripts can add content to your website's blog. How? Just embed the YouTube video in a blog post and below the video include the full transcript in text, word by word. Google's search engine crawlers see this as extremely helpful for readers who might not have the full time to go through the entire length of the video. Reading a transcript is certainly much faster than watching the whole video.

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