Speaker 1: If you are looking for a way to transcribe video or audio clips to text for free, then you have come to the right place. I have spent hours searching for a way to do just that, and the only viable option is to use YouTube. Let's get started. First you have to have a source clip. I have an mp3 clip for demonstration purposes. If you have a video clip, just substitute your video clip in for my mp3 clip, wherever it is needed. I will play this clip to give you an idea of what we are transcribing. This is a sample audio recording used to test YouTube's video transcription abilities. I am just talking into my mouse. There, you have an idea of what will be uploaded. So take your video or audio clip and open it up in your video editing program of choice. I use Wondershare Filmora, but you can use Windows Movie Maker, or Mac Movie Maker, or Premiere Pro if you prefer. So first, import your audio or video clip, and then drag it to your timeline. Because YouTube only accepts videos, I want to convert my mp3 clip to a video, so I am just going to add a colored slide as an overlay and drag it to the length of my audio clip. That way YouTube thinks it is a video, and also, since it is a solid color, I save it on video and uploading space. We have to make sure that our video meets YouTube's requirements for automatic transcription. If we look at YouTube's requirements for automatic captions, we see that the language in the video has to be supported by automatic captions. If you are using English, you have English in your video, then it should be no problem. The video also cannot be too long. The video must have good sound quality and contain speech that YouTube can recognize. There should not be background music or background noise that interferes with the speech. At the beginning of the video, there should not be a long period of silence. The voice recognition system only looks at the beginning parts of the video to decide if there is speech in a video, which makes it very important for there to be speech at the beginning of the video. There also cannot be multiple speakers whose speech overlaps. If we meet these requirements, then we should be able to use YouTube's automatic captioning service. There, I will export my video as to YouTube, and I can export it in the lowest quality for ADP, and also set its privacy settings to private. Thankfully, YouTube does transcribe videos that are set to private. Now I have already uploaded this video to YouTube, and you can see it in my YouTube account here. This video appears just as a normal video, but if we go to the subtitles in CC, you will see that YouTube has automatically transcribed my video. Immediately after uploading your video, you might not see this just yet if you go to this tab. For my video, which has a length of 1 minute and 41 seconds, it took YouTube approximately 10 minutes to fully transcribe. For longer videos, it will take YouTube longer. I would give YouTube about an hour or so, and if you do not see this automatic transcription, then most likely YouTube did not transcribe your video. Clicking on this English automatic transcription takes us to YouTube's transcription service. You can see that YouTube did automatically caption my video, and put it next to timings. Let's download this file as a .sbv. The process I am showing you works best with .sbv files, so download it as that. I have already saved it to my desktop, as you can see here. When you first download the file, and try to open it, you will be greeted by a Windows Does Not Recognize File Type dialog. You will need to select the Choose Program, and then select Notepad, as I have already done. After you have opened up your transcription file, you will need to open up the Caption to Text Converter. You can download this file from the link below this video. I created this file specifically for this purpose. If we follow the directions in this orange box, we should be able to transcribe this text into something more readable. Right now, there are a bunch of spaces, and also a bunch of timings that we don't want, and they are not easy to get rid of. If we were to manually delete each of these lines, it would take a long time if we have a long video. But instead, let's follow these directions and use this script. First, we will copy all the text and paste it into this text box here. Next, we want to click on the button Remove Timings to remove all the timings. This brings up a text entry box, and because our text, our timings, all share the same beginning, we can enter that into this box and have the program automatically delete all the timing entries. If you have different subtitle captioning files, then the timings will share a different format, and you can customize the program to detect that format and delete it here. We will press OK, and you can see that has deleted all the timings. Next, we will press the line break button to delete all the line breaks. There, that looks more legible. But the one problem that's still present is that there are a lot of double spaces right here, right here, and going in and manually deleting them is time-consuming and also error-prone. We're likely to miss a double space. So we will press the Delete Spaces button, which deletes all the double spaces. There, we have a very legible text block. You can copy this text block to whatever document you are using it in and edit it there. I have copied this text block to this document here, and you can see that YouTube transcription does not provide any capitalization or sentence formatting. It does not add in periods or commas. You will need to do that yourself. That's it. I hope I have helped you with your transcription task. With the lack of free alternatives, using YouTube is one of the best ways to quickly transcribe a video into text. If what I have shared has helped you, please give this video a like and subscribe. Thank you.