Effortlessly Transcribe Audio Files Using Microsoft Word's Built-In Feature (Full Transcript)

Name: Effortlessly Transcribe Audio Files Using Microsoft Word's Built-In Feature
Uploaded: 2024-09-06T04:59:49+00:00
Channel: GoTranscript
Description: Learn how to use Microsoft Word to transcribe audio files and create closed captions easily. Follow these steps to generate and edit transcripts quickly.

Learn how to use Microsoft Word to transcribe audio files and create closed captions easily. Follow these steps to generate and edit transcripts quickly.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have an audio file that you needed transcribing or creating closed captions from? Well, you don't need to do this manually. No, no, no. You are going to use Word. Yeah, Word can do that. So if you're in Edge, just go to the browser and type in word.new. Otherwise, just log into your Office account and open up Word. Now go to the microphone here, click on this dropdown and select transcribe. You can generate a transcript by uploading your audio file. Let's upload audio. Mine is right here. Click on open.

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Speaker 1: And voila, here it is. We have the ability to make edits if we want to. And once you're ready, you can add this to the document, either with speakers, with timestamps, with speakers and timestamps. If you need to correct the speaker name, you can do it from here as well. And once you're ready, add this to your document. I'm just going to add the text version and here it is. Magic.