Transcribe YouTube Videos Automatically

transcribing a YouTube video fast and easy I got you one of the easiest ways to transcribe a YouTube video is by using YouTube's automatic captioning software now this is really great because with one click of a button you can help your video reach a much wider audience through YouTube's automatic translation function as well it's going to be great to consume without sound as well as for those who may be hard of hearing it's kind of a win-win-win situation however I need to put this out there YouTube's automatic speech recognition doesn't always render the most accurate

captions but you could actually go in and edit these captions later so I'll show you how to do that as well to view and edit your captions the first thing that we want to do is sign into YouTube Studio next we're going to go down to the subtitles option here on the left hand side and now I've uploaded a demo for the purposes of today's demo you can see the video here is called demo it's so you can see that YouTube has already gone in and created an English transcription of this video and we can

go ahead and edit there's also a few other options here we can unpublish those captions we can download them and edit them you know manually on a text editor or something like that but let's go ahead and click duplicate and edit what this is going to do it's going to duplicate that file so that you have a backup of it and then it's going to give us this one to edit with so you can see it's actually created a transcription of my entire video here but you can see there's a couple things all right for

instance would be one word we want a capital on that so we can actually just go through and edit this like text now one small little side note here if you're just looking to download a transcription of a video that you've already published you can actually go to the video here on YouTube the bottom right hand corner click these three dots click show transcript and it's going to give you a text transcript of the entire video now you can just highlight all of this copy it and paste it of course that's going to include the

little time stamps there so it doesn't look great but it is a quick way to grab the text from one of your videos okay back to our editor here so I'm just going to quickly comb through this and make sure that I'm really happy with the punctuation and the spelling through this video foreign I think that's good I'm happy with the grammar let me know if I've missed anything down in the comments what we can do now is go into edit timings and this is going to show us a time stamp of each caption where

it starts and where it ends and you can edit these timings just by changing the text field in here or how long the duration is of each section but you can also just do it by dragging these sections around like this I find this to be a much easier way to line up the captions properly and if I play this back all right voice actors I got a question for you what's your thought on audio editing software and so you can see here I actually already have captions burnt into this video these white ones here

but YouTube is adding these black ones down below so this is really really helpful they also have this tool to pause while typing so if you want to edit the video will automatically pause while you're typing which is really really helpful for transcribing quickly and once you're done with this you can actually go ahead and download these subtitles as a sbv file you can save that to your computer you can upload that into your video editing software once you click publish it's going to to replace the automatic captions that YouTube created originally with the captions

that you've added so we can actually go ahead and delete these ones now because we know that the ones that we've created are a little bit more refined they have better grammar better punctuation so we're happy with that keep in mind you can always jump back in and edit if you find any issues down the road but this is a really quick way to transcribe if you're working on like a two hour long podcast or something like that it's gonna do the bulk of the work for you and you can just go through and spell

check it's going to save you a whole lot of time and energy and of course I hope that today's video is helpful for you if it was please feel free to go ahead and subscribe for more videos just like this hope you guys have a great day and we'll see you in the next one