Friday, April 10, 2015

7 Ways to put YouTube Transcripts to Use



Here are 7 ways in which YouTube transcripts can be put to use: 

1. References and Citations: 
A citation is a quotation or an extract from some source for reference purpose. Usually the sources include books, newspapers, research publications, magazines, letters, manuscript etc. So by transcribing YouTube videos one can use parts of spoken text as citations. One word of caution: Make sure to include the source along with the Author name. Other details such as date of publication, year of publication, edition number, for which university or research institution the article was published, such information can also be mentioned. If space is scarce then including the authors name and date of publication is sufficient. 

 


2. Add YouTube Transcripts To Your Blog: 
One of the best possible uses of a YouTube transcript is to cut and paste the full verbatim transcript into a blog. Blog owners usually struggle with adding fresh content to their websites. Struggle happens when one has to think of new topics, fresh ideas of presentations and news content when there the topics have already been mentioned or talked about, or, when there is very limited scope of sharing new content due to the product or service. For example a company selling mosquito protection nets would find it difficult to add fresh pages to their website's blog. On the other hand an photographer or a painter could be flowing with lots of creative ideas and things to talk about and Tweet about. So if one is running out of website content pages then consider adding a full YouTube verbatim transcript to your website. 

Tip: Always include a verbatim transcript below the YouTube video. 

3. Compilation Of Transcripts Into An EBook. 
Here is another fantastic method of putting YouTube text to something useful. Website users, authors and publishers can compile all the verbatim text conversation of YouTube videos into an Ebook on a monthly or a biweekly timeframe. Ebooks can be published onto Amazon Kindle book services, Issuu, Scribd etc. Also, citations and references can be extracted and made part of Ebook pages.  Thus it makes the life of a content manager or an author so much easier when you have some ready sources of your content. 



4. Content material for Marketing Materials: Thinking of fresh, innovative and snappy digital marketing ideas is a common problem that marketers face. Digital marketers and SEO specialists are now beginning to realize power of YouTube video transcription. Here are seven ways in which YouTube Transcripts are being used by website marketers:

A. SeoMoz inserts a video transcript below each of their WhiteBoard Friday videos.
B. Marketers are making dual purpose of YouTube transcripts by using time coded YouTube subtitles.
C. Digital marketers are taking help of Facebook video transcription service by Etranscriber.net to improve on video viewing experience.

5. Direct content for Weekly/Monthly Newsletter: 
YouTube embedded videos can be embedded into your email newsletters. And one can place the 1st minute of transcribed video text in big quotes. The text acts as an interesting teaser which can evoke readers interest and lead him to click on the link in the newsletter.

6. Video Logs: 
Vlog or Video log is a type of a blog in the form of small length videos posted on a frequent basis. It is also known as Vlogging compared to what is known traditionally which is 'Blogging'. Vlogs are usually short video posts which run under 7 minutes.  

7. Cataloging information: 
Most people have not considered this but cataloging by the means of a transcript can also be done. This is especially used in financial transcription where insurance reports are transcribed and catalogued. Similarly videos from Youtube, Daily Motion and Vimeo can be transcribed, converted to text and catalogues. 

So as you can see there are several benefits of converting a YouTube video into a transcript. 

Rates of Youtube Transcription: Prices for converting a YouTube video to text  starts at $0.85/minute of video for a 3 day turnaround. 24 hour Rush transcription is also available at the rate of $1.25/minute. 


  


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