How to Transcribe YouTube Videos

We’ll talk about the best ways to Transcribe YouTube Videos in this article. This can save you hours of time and improve your personal brand at the same time. YouTube can be a great way to learn and have fun, but for some people, adding text makes it even better. For some people, a YouTube video transcription is a must-have tool.

YouTube video transcriptions can also help people understand the content of a video better and even teach them something. You might want to learn how to transcribe a YouTube video because of this, but where do you start? You don’t have to take classes or spend hours doing it in a word processor, which is good news. You have a few choices if you want to quickly turn your YouTube video into text.

Ways to Transcribe YouTube Videos

Transcribe with Google Doc

When an automatic or user-uploaded transcript of the YouTube video is available, the first two methods work fine. But if you want to transcribe a video that doesn’t have a transcript, you can use the built-in voice typing feature in Google Docs to listen to the video audio and have everything typed out for you.

If you want a good transcript, you should have the PC listen directly to the sound coming out of its speakers. Here’s what you need to do:

• In Windows, right-click on the sound icon in the taskbar and select Recording devices.
• Now select “Stereo Mix” from the list and click “Set Default” to set it as default source of recording.
• In case Stereo Mix option isn’t supported by your PC’s sound card (like mine), then you can download and install the VB Virtual Audio Cable tool and get an alternative option in the same menu.
• After installing the drivers of the tool, you should see a “Cable Output” option in the same sound options. Select this option and then click ” Set Default“.

After that, your computer will record the sound that comes out of the speakers. Now, all you have to do to start the transcription is start Google Docs Voice typing and the video you want to use. Here’s what you need to do:

• Open Google Docs in Chrome or any other Chromium based browsers (Voice Typing isn’t supported in non-Chromium browsers).
• Now create a new document and select“Voice typing” from the Tools menu on top.
• A tiny box will show up with a microphone icon in the middle. Click on it to start recording.
• Move to the YouTube video tab and play the video. Google Docs will automatically type when people will speak in the YouTube video.

Copy/Paste YouTube transcript

Google’s Speech Recognition technology is used to automatically transcribe most of the YouTube videos. There is also a chance that the person who owns the video transcribed it themselves and shared it with the readers.

No matter what, it’s easy to get to the transcript and copy it with the timestamps. Here’s what you need to do:

• Click on the More button below the video and select Transcript from the menu.
• Below you’ll be asked to select a language. Make your choice and you’ll see a full transcript along with timestamps.
• Now click and drag to highlight all the text and press Ctrl + C to copy the text. You can paste this text anywhere and your transcript will be ready.
• YouTube automatically highlights words that it might have picked wrong which makes it easy to edit the transcript. Just click on the CC button in the YouTube player to enable subtitles and you will see the subtitles in white.
• However, the subtitles with gray color are the ones that might have some mistakes. You can see this to easily amend the transcription. Although do keep in mind that subtitles uploaded by the video owner will not have gray words.