so here is a free tool that lets you transcribe your videos and audio effortlessly and it's pretty accurate I have been using it from last few days and here I am telling you about this free tool called Mac whisper transcribe is actually converting the audio into text so you may have watched a lot of videos on YouTube and other social media where there are subtitles captions that is a transcription of the audio in that video because surprisingly a lot of people watch videos without audio so when they have subtitles they watch it for a few
seconds and then they decide whether to tap on the video or not to continue watching that video so captions or subtitles are quite important and that is why YouTube has a feature of autogenerating subtitles closed captions for all the videos because it helps users get context about that video even Instagram offers this feature of creating captions from the videos and these autogenerating features of social media apps are good but they give you little to no control over how the transcription is done sometimes it is pure garbage so this is why I recommend everyone to use
a standalone application to transcribe their videos to create subtitles doing it manually takes a lot of time and you have to create videos faster and faster I am always talking about creating a faster workflow and that is why I recommend everyone to use these tools these AI tools that can speed up your workflow like 5x even 10x so there are already a lot of applications available we will be talking about that in a separate video be sure to check that out on the channel but in this video I'm going to talk about about a free
application for Mac that I came across but before that let me tell you how I came across it so I was browsing the openi website which is the parent company of chat GPT which has taken the World by strong it's been only 6 months chat GPT is available for everyone and it is crazy and I was browsing their website and turns out they have got a lot of other AI products so whisper is a transcribing tool that converts speech into text and does a fairly well job so this is a pure AI product from open
AI other companies and other start s can create products around it using their API and there is a lot of documentation and you can also use it for your purpose also by creating a small web app I was actually going through the documentation to create a web app for myself because this is absolutely free and there are services that charge you $9 $10 per transcription of a video so this one is really good and really promising but then I came across this app called Mac whisper which is available on gumroad it is created by someone
called Jordi Bruin so this application has got a free version as well as pro version so the difference between the pro and the free version is so the free version lets you use a slightly downgraded version of the transcription pro version lets you use the higher end the pro version is a one-time payment option and it only costs € 18 gives you more features like batch transcriptions manually add speaker to your transcript so there are a lot of features but if you just want to transcribe a video of audio file the free version works really
well I'm going to do a demo as I have already downloaded and installed the Mac whisper the free version so this is how it is it is saying to upgrade I won't be upgrading and let me show you the free version how well it works so I have just created an Instagram reel uh let me grab that reel super fast so this is the Instagram re that I created so chpd for iOS is finally available in more than 20 countries it's free to use so the interface is pretty much like and now I would want
to get the transcription of that video so that I can add captions to to this one you can see how amazing it is I'm just going to drag and drop it here and it starts transcribing 47% done 97 98 it's finished so it just took under 10 second to transcribe a 1 minute video and let's see how well the transcription is so charity for iOS is finally available in more than 20 countries it's free to use so the interface is pretty much like the web version but you can also input The Prompt using your voice
so you can record your voice and give it a prompt okay write a poetry of six lines about global warming so you can see that it is responding pretty fast there are more than a so you get the idea how fast it is and it is free to use it is free to use forever there is no limitation like after five videos you will have to pay nothing like so like if you have converted an audio F and you don't want to put in a video you just want the transcribed ver is you can click
here this will give you the text file you can copy and then you can paste it anywhere but if you want to export an SRT file subtitle F you can do that SRT file vtt text format and there are other formats as well so SRT will give you times so if you export the SRT file let me export the SRT file it is saved now if I open the final cut by the way if you want to do it in any other video editing application the process would be similar like how you import the SRT
file add the captions into your program in Final Cut Pro I use a plugin caption but drag my video put it in my timeline and now I will find caption burner this is the plug-in that I use I will drag it till the end now I will highlight it and import edit caption and now I can click on import this is the SRD file that we downloaded and I will open I will click on import and I will replace the existing sample or demo of the caption burner it will replace I will save it so
chat GPD for iOS is finally available in more than 20 countries it's free to use so the interface is pretty much like the web version but you can also input The Prompt using your voice so you can record your voice and give so this is how you add captions to your video by transcribing the video or the audio file free of cost using Mac Whisper app the download link will be in the description and there is another video you should watch that talks about text-based video editing applications you can use to speed up the process
of editing videos so that's about it in this video I hope you find this useful I will see you in the next one till then take care
