Comprehensive Guide to Auto-Transcription Services for Instructors
Learn about recommended auto-transcription services like Zoom, YouTube, and Panopto, and how to effectively use them for captioning your instructional videos.
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Speaker 1: In this recording, I'm going to talk about the auto-transcription services that we recommend. As an instructor, you're going to make recordings, and those recordings need captioning. Auto-transcription is a good way to get started on that, and there are three that I recommend. Zoom has an auto-transcription. If you use Zoom to make the recordings and you save them into the cloud and you have that setting already checked in your Zoom account, you will have a .vtt file that is associated, that's the transcript file, with your video file, which is a .mp4 file. Those two files together provide the user with the video and closed captioning. However, as many know, you may need to do some editing of that transcription because not all algorithms of the machine understand all the terms that you might be using in your instruction. YouTube also, if you make a video, let's say in Zoom or Panopto or some other tool, and then you upload it into YouTube, there is an auto-transcription that can be activated on a YouTube channel. So you need a YouTube channel, and then there are steps to getting the video up there and activating the transcription, and then of course you can edit that as well. Panopto itself also, if you make videos in here, you can automatically invoke the auto-transcription, all with inside Panopto, and you wouldn't have to have a YouTube channel. You can even take an .mp4 video that you created in Zoom, let's say, and bring that over and upload it into Panopto, the .mp4 file, and it will transcribe it for you. You would still need someone to come in and go to the auto-transcription and make the slight edits that might be necessary. So again, there are three different ways to do this with the three different services. Let's assume you've made your recordings inside Zoom, and now you need to bring them down and share them with somebody. Ideally, my recommendation, don't bring them down so that they have to finagle them in some other application. Instead, if you've got somebody going through a suite of videos, so I'm in Zoom now, I'm going to click on recording, let them edit them already inside Zoom for you, give them access. They're going to be doing a lot of work for you, this would make their work easier. So they would log into your Zoom account, come to recordings, click on one of the recordings where you have it shared, and you have a transcription. So again, you need to make sure that transcription option was set before you made the recording so it would produce this. Then that person who had access to this could simply come in and then they'll find the transcript over here. I'm going to hit the pause on here. You can see that I am talking, talking, talking, and maybe I want to come in here and correct something. I don't see anything to correct. Oh, OK. Here's, her name is K-A-T, so I'm going to just click inside here, edit, and change her name to Kat, and save. Once all of this has been edited, then let's go back to, not here, let's go back. This auto transcript would then have all the edits in. You would bring this down to your local machine and put it in a good folder, maybe make a folder that you're putting all the files in. And then you are going to give this a more meaningful name. I'm calling this DemoAdvising.VTT, and you save it into that folder. You can see I'd already done it. Also bring down the MP4. You don't really need the audio. It's already part of the MP4. So when I bring that down, it keeps trying to open mine in an application. I'll come up here and choose, all right, how do I get this to come down, show all tabs. This was me testing earlier. There we go. There's the drop. I'm going to put that into my Video and Transcripts folder that I made, and I'm going to give it the same name. Make sure you leave that .mp4. So I think I called it DemoAdvising or something like that. That's important. Hit Save. Because when you are taking those two files and uploading it into your YouTube channel, you want them to match so you know which files they are, right? You're going to have a whole folder full of different file names, and you don't want to be confused by, well, which one goes with which. Let me find my folder here, Desktop. There we go. So here I have one video with a transcript, another video with a transcript. So if you've got 10, 20 of them, you definitely want meaningful names. Again, if you've gone ahead and used Zoom to do your transcription, I would definitely give the person who is helping you with all your videos access so they can come in and just use Zoom to do the edits, and then they can bring down the VTT file when it's done and the mp4 file. Now, getting them up into your YouTube channel, this is on the TLC website, by the way. So if you go to sites.google.com slash southseattle.edu slash TLC, I know it's a mouthful, sorry. Choose the Continuity Planning, and you'll find it in the dropdown, Three Auto-Transcription Services. Here's where I talk about YouTube. Your recordings live within Google's servers via your personal YouTube channel. This tutorial assumes you have a YouTube account where you can upload and share your mp4 videos. Now, for you, you'd be adding your VTT files as well. Or let's say you just did Zoom and didn't do the VTT, you just had the mp4s. Upload them into your channel, and then apply YouTube's auto-generate, and then edit from there. Lastly, Panopto. Let's say you made your recordings in Zoom or some other application. That's okay. You can still upload them into Panopto as an mp4 file, but the VTT for Zoom won't work. But in Panopto, I have a recording here that shows you how to apply the auto-transcription. Just like Zoom, though, anybody who's helping you edit your transcription, you're going to have to give them access to your Panopto account. So those are the three auto-transcription services that I recommend at this time. Let me just real quickly show you how, if you prefer to just bring down the files and share a Google Drive or a OneDrive account. I'm going to log into my Google Drive, because it has unlimited server space. I would choose New Folder, give it a name. Here I already have one. And then once you've named that and made it, choose Share and Advanced. And then change who has access to anyone with the link. Now you can take this link and share it with whomever is going to need to grab your VTT file and your mp4 file. That's if you don't want to let them into your Zoom or your Panopto or anything. They're still going to have to find an application to put those files up and edit them. So it's going to make it harder for them to do it this way, but you definitely can. You just upload your files that you've saved into that shared folder. You can see I've already done that. Again, you would take that folder's link and share it with somebody that was helping you. That's it. Again, I would recommend somebody doing all that work for me. I'm going to let them into my Zoom account so they can get to all my recordings. Since they've done all those things, you still need to find a place to put them. Right now you do have 120 days. You could share this link with your class if they just edit it in here. You can come in here and choose the shareable link has been copied to the clipboard. You could share this and you would know that they would persist for 120 days. That could be a nice getting started so you didn't worry that, hey, I don't have everything up in YouTube yet, because you know it'll be there. But after 120 days, it's gone. It gets deleted out of the Zoom cloud because they don't provide that long-lasting server space. We're actually using Zoom accounts that come from K-20 through State Board, and so we're lucky to have Zoom at no cost. So you get what you pay for, right? Anyway, there you go. I hope that helps. Please work with any of our TLC associates. If you'd like to get some one-on-one support, again, go to our TLC website, and you can see there's our team. You can contact them individually in email. You can also go to LOTS, Live Online TLC Support, where they're 9 to 5 over break and all the way up to the start of the quarter. You can see who's in there, and any of these people can help you. I think that Doug and Olga are probably the most comfortable. Jill can certainly help you as well. But thanks for reaching out, and I'm interested in hearing back which path you decided to take. Thank you. Bye-bye.

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