To create subtitles, analyze content in detail, or share it in a Word file, PDF or other text format.
Thanks to voice recognition and artificial intelligence, the process is fast, with less and fewer failures. Manually transcribing video to text is difficult and requires high typing speed.
How to record voice calls on WhatsApp
On the other hand, if the system extracts the audio automatically, we only need to reread it and correct mistakes , saving a lot of time. Of course, commas and dots will probably have to be entered manually.
There is no perfect system for transcribing videos but we will see a couple of free alternatives that work well as well as paid services such as Transcriberry , so it would be easy to choose the best option according to our needs.
Google Drive Documents, a simple option
Google Voice Recognition is very good , but does not offer any tool to upload videos and decrypt their content. Some developers do integrate this feature into their applications, but Google charges them for the service, so the user must also pay.
There is an interesting "trick" that involves using Google Docs (with Google Drive on the computer) to listen to audio and convert it to text.
Recognition is not accurate if the microphone has to listen from the speakers playing the video, but we will first look at the basic procedure and then learn how to use a plugin that greatly improves it.
We have to create a new document using the Google Chrome browser on the computer, it will not work with other browsers:
Internet: new document on Google Drive
In the top menu, look for "Tools" and select "Voice Dictation" :
To start recording, we must click on the microphone , which will appear in the document window:
If we never gave Google Documents access to the microphone in the browser (which is likely), we will click "Allow" in the popup window:
Now we can play the video (on the computer's speakers or another device) so that it is reflected in the document:
The function in video transcription services works well with your own voice, it works even better when using video. So, we are going to explain how to use a plugin that will send the sound of the video directly to the sound input, bypassing the speakers, which will improve the result.
Improve voice dictation with sound
Playing back the video and turning on the sound microphone from the speakers is a significant loss of quality. An alternative is to use this driver or controller, which tricks the system into transmitting sound internally without loss of quality.
Recently, I also made a similar work. I needed to translate a video from Spanish to English, and it was not an easy task. I found a service that helped me accurately accomplish this task https://www.translate.com/spanish-english And in such matters, I could only trust human translation. Because machine intelligence can make mistakes, and for my work, it was not acceptable.
Join now or log in to leave a comment