YouTube has become very popular in recent years. It might become the number one visited site in the world in the coming years.
As humans increase their consumption of videos over articles and blog posts Search engines too show videos in return for any search more than ever.
To make your YouTube video rank higher on search results it is important to transcribe them as algorithms use it to index your videos for ranking.
There are several ways to transcribe a YouTube video. They are as follows:
Use YouTube Transcription
Many people don't know this but YouTube itself comes with transcription with each video.
You can easily get your hands on it by the following steps:
- Click on the More button below a YouTube video
- Select Transcript
- Select Language
- Select all the transcripts along with timestamps to copy
Now, this transcript is automatically created by YouTube and might have many errors that need to be edited. So this might not be as accurate but it is free to use and can be used with some careful edits.
Transcribe using Google Doc
Now many YouTube videos might not have a transcript. This is especially true for videos having non-English audio. For this, you can use Google Doc's in-built video typing feature to hear the audio and then automatically get the typed version.
This is a wonderfully free method to do a transcript for YouTube or any video but the video must have a good audio quality to make it work and might still need some editing.
Use an Automatic Ai transcription tool
There are many ai-enabled video transcribers available in the market to help in YouTube video transcribing.
This is not a free method however it is much cheaper and faster than hiring a transcriptionist to do the same. Ai-enabled video transcription tools like VidScribe AI can automatically transcribe, redub as well as translate videos automatically in many languages.
This is useful for YouTube videos with English audio that are specially targeted to non-English viewers and vice versa.
Conclusion
Well, these are only a few ways to transcribe a YouTube video. You can choose anyone or practice a variation of all three as per the video needs.
Hope this works for you. Thanks for reading.