Transcribing your video can be time consuming, and often feel like a thankless task. But what if you could automatically transcribe your video instead?
How can you transcribe a video automatically?
Depending on the platform you’re using, videos can be transcribed in a number of ways. Most AI-based transcription tools leverage technologies like machine learning and speech recognition to save you time.
If you’re uploading videos to YouTube, you can try the automatic captions generated on any videos you upload there, which rely on Google's speech recognition tech. Just make sure your audio quality and speaking skills are on point! Of course, this doesn’t work for transcribing private videos like recordings of events, speeches, presentations, or meetings.
For professional editors out there, Dropbox Replay has built-in AI transcription for videos. The whole process is smooth—from import to final edit—with the option to fine-tune the text as needed.
What's the best way to automatically transcribe a video?
For tasks like detailed editing or creating accessible content for a wide audience, professional video transcription software can be an effective solution. These tools can save you from making edit after edit before you’re happy with the output.
Replay in particular uses AI to automatically transcribe videos. Once it's transcribed, you can easily search for key phrases within the editor—helping you pick out timestamps of relevant clips based on the dialogue, not guesswork.
AI consistently and accurately transcribes dialogue but also removes the need for manual work, such as manually scrubbing through footage to find a specific line. This ultimately saves valuable time and resources for video editors to focus on other things.
Meanwhile, you can also use Dropbox Replay to collaborate with others on your videos while you review them—allowing reviewers to provide frame-accurate feedback on video edits.
What are the benefits of transcribing videos?
A video transcription is far more than just a written record of the words spoken in your video. If done accurately, transcribing your video can:
Increase accessibility
Transcribed videos make content accessible to people living with hearing loss or who speak other languages. Adding a clear video transcript doesn’t just broaden its audience—it removes barriers to enjoying and absorbing it too.
Aid translation efforts
Your video might be incredibly useful, or even inspiring. But if someone watching it can’t speak the same language, the message is likely lost on them. Automatically generate a transcript and you’ve got the bones of what needs to be translated, ready for use as subtitles.
With Dropbox Replay, you have the ability to transcribe in multiple languages too—so you can create accurate transcripts for global audiences in minutes. This is a huge boost for editors working with localized video assets or creating multilingual content. It takes the hassle out of translation and creating subtitles, making it faster and more efficient.
Enhance user experience
Ever wanted to turn on subtitles and they're not there? Annoying, isn’t it? Well, AI tools eliminate this frustration for every viewer and boost user experience across the board.
Make your video easier to discover
If you’re publishing your video online, transcriptions can help search engines understand and index your video by providing context, and better SEO. This makes your video more likely to appear in the search results for a search engine like Google, or be discoverable on video platforms like YouTube.
Get more out of your content
Video transcriptions can easily be repurposed for content like blog posts, articles, or social media updates. You’ve created great content—why not make it work as hard as possible, in as many formats as you can think of?
Save you time, and effort
Let's not forget the time and effort you'll save by transcribing your videos automatically. No more pausing the video every few seconds to frantically write down what you’ve heard! Plus, if you’re storing your video in Dropbox, you can use AI to generate quick summaries and even ask questions about your video. That could come in handy.
Store, transcribe, edit and collaborate on videos in one secure space
Automatically transcribing your videos isn’t the only thing Dropbox can do to supercharge your video projects. It also revolutionizes several other aspects of your video workflow:
- Collaboration—with Dropbox, you can work together, provide feedback, receive feedback, and see who has checked out your videos, right away.
- Sharing—sharing project files and other work is just a few clicks away, so you'll be effortlessly sharing your videos and other masterpieces with the world.
- Storage—Dropbox automatically saves all your videos and work, so you never have to worry. Even large video files become easy to manage—whenever you need them.
You can even create and send a freelance videography invoice for your business, all from within Dropbox. That’s just one more way Dropbox and Dropbox Replay can help you do all your work faster, more efficiently, and always with the security of your content in mind.
