How to Transcribe Audio/Video Files to Text for FREE (no time limits) using Google Docs or MS Word

 

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How to Transcribe Audio/Video Files to Text for FREE
(no time limits) using
Google Docs or MS Word

                                              https://youtu.be/sLlI6WdUsXE 

How to Transcribe Audio/Video Files to Text

Hello everybody and welcome back to my BLOG  Jennifer Marie vo where I teach you different ways  that you can make money online working from home.  If you are one of my subscribers, you know that a  lot of my videos focus on how to make money online  as a transcriptionist where you transcribe or type  out audio or video files for different platforms  or for different clients. So doing this manually  takes a lot of work. So there are several  different ways that you can automatically  transcribe audio files directly to text that  you can then manually edit for any spelling or  punctuation errors. So in this tutorial, I'm going  to show you how you can transcribe automatically  for free without any limits, you can transcribe  as many audio or video files as you like, and you  don't need to pay anything. So what you will need  is a VB audio virtual cable which is free, .And you also need to have Google Docs. Now,  again, Google Docs is completely free, you just  need a Google or Gmail account, which you can also  create for free. So the first thing you need to do  is download this audio virtual cable by going to  the VB audio link in the description below. And  then click on audio apps. So basically, VB cable  is a virtual audio device working as a virtual  audio cable, all audio coming in the cable input  is simply forwarded to the cable output. So what  this means is that we can use the dictate tool in  Google Docs to automatically transcribe our files,  I did a tutorial on how to use the speech to text  feature. But with that feature, you would have to  actually say everything that you want Google to  transcribe. But by using this virtual audio cable,  we just have to click play and wait, as  Google is going to be listening directly  to the audio file that we're going to play and  transcribing that directly. This makes the process  super easy. Okay, so go ahead  and download the VB cable driver,  either for Windows or Mac. Okay, so now locate  where you installed the file on your computer.  And you're going to right click on the file and go  extract files. And then click OK. So that's going  to extract all of the files in a folder. So I'll  double click on the folder, and then locate the  one that you have to install. So you're either  going to have to install the VB cable setup,  or this one if you have a 64 bit computer. So  then what you're going to do is right click on it  and go run as administrator. Okay, and now you're  going to click Install driver, make sure to run  as administrator otherwise it won't allow you to  install it. Now make sure to watch this entire  video before you install the driver. Because once  you install the audio driver, you will not be able  to hear any sound coming out of your speakers,  because it's going to change your output speaker  to the virtual cable. So you can follow along  with this video if you like. But just turn on  the subtitles, so you can read what I'm telling  you to do. And they'll also tell you how to  change it back so you can hear the sound from your  speakers again, then click Install. So it will say  installation complete and successful, you might  reboot your system to finalize installation.  So what you're going to do now is  go down to your Windows system tray,  and you're going to right click on the sound  icon. And then go to open sound settings.  And here under the sound tab, you want your  output to be the cable input. This should be done  automatically once you install it. Now  if you want to go back to being able to  hear out of your speakers, click on this and go  to speaker or headphones or whatever you want your  output device to be. But remember, you won't be  able to hear anything coming from your computer  when you do this. So make sure you change this  to cable input. And then input you want to change  to cable output. So now we're going to go to  Google Docs. And you're going to start a new  document. Remember, Google Docs is completely  free. You just need a Gmail or Google account,  so you can click on blank. So what we're  going to do is go to Tools, voice typing.  So now what you can do is open  up your file on your computer.  And what I want is I want Google Docs to  automatically transcribe one of my videos  for my YouTube channel. So what you're going to  do is click on the microphone and then press play  on whatever file on your computer that you want  Google to automatically transcribe and just wait  until the file finishes. I'm going to click play  first and then click on the microphone button.So you can see that it has done a pretty good job  of transcribing this file automatically for me,  of course, there are some things I  would have to go and change and edit.  But overall, it's done a great job, and  it's much less work to do it this way.  You can also use this same method in Microsoft  Word. Now you can create your own account on  office.com. And you do not need to pay anything,  I don't have the premium version. So go ahead,  create an account. And then you're going to  launch word and click on new blank document.  Now once you do that, you're going to click on  dictate This here is in Spanish because I have  the Spanish version, but that's fine, just  click on dictate. And you're going to choose  allow to allow the website to use your microphone.  And now you can click on the Settings icon here.  And you can choose the language that we're  speaking so I'm going to choose English.  And then again, make sure that your  microphone is selected the output cable . you can also turn on automatic punctuation. And  this here is a filter. If you don't want any,  you know bad words or curse words, I'm  going to turn that off, and then choose  accept. So now I'm going to press play on  my video and then press the microphone icon. And you can see that just like that it has  transcribed everything that I played from  that audio file. And it did an excellent job. I'm  not seeing almost any errors here. So make sure  to turn on the auto punctuation as I taught you  before. And this requires very little editing.   So once you're finished, what you can do is press  Ctrl A and then Ctrl C to copy or right click  

and go to copy. And then we can go ahead into  grammerly and right click and put paste as plain  

text for whatever reason when we just paste it it  doesn't pick up as many errors but paste as plain  

text it does. In this I have the free version of  Grammarly. You can see that it's telling me to add  a comma here. And then also these are all  different additional writing issues that are  available for premium users. But you can see here  that this will give you an idea of where you may  be need to add a comma or make some sort of edits.  And to change your audio settings back to how they  originally were, you're just going to right click  on the speaker icon go to open sound settings. And  then here you're just going to change your output  device back to your headphones or to your speaker.  You know enter your normal microphone or whatever  you want for your input and your output devices.  And once you do that your laptop or your computer  will be restored to normal and you'll be able to  hear the audio once again. So I really hope you  guys enjoy this tutorial. This is an awesome way  to automatically transcribe for free there are  no limits whatsoever. You can do this as long  as you want for as long as the files are. All you  have to do is press play and then just walk away  and Once the file has fully played out, you will  have your transcript ready for you to edit and  send to your client or upload to your website or  whatever it is that you need a transcription for.  

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