Free Transcriptions

Summary: Hey! This is Mike Cowles from www.epicmarketer.com and today I have two different resources for you for getting your audio or video transcribed for free. Now, the first one, the one that a lot of people don't know about and is a great resource and this is simply YouTube. Now when you make a video and you upload it to Youtube, you'll see a little icon in order to keep it more understandable on this episode of www.epicmarketer.com I'm gonna have an image underneath this video that circles and points to where the little icon is in order to see your transcription Google will do automatically for free. Keep in mind when Google transcribes videos the quality is not gonna be 100%. You gonna have to watch along and you gonna have to edit it as you go but its 90% done and typically for a five minute video its gonna take you about 10 minutes to go through versus transcribing it by hand or paying somebody to do it where it will take maybe half an hour. The second tool and its another one that's free. You can use either an iPhone or an Android, this is a free app called Dragon Naturally Speaking. The way that it works is you simply turn it on and you click a button that say “Dictate” and while you're recording you can hold it up and dictate it or if you're talk is gonna be for more than a minute then what you do is you simply hold it in front of your computer while you're playing back the recording and again it will only do a minute. Once you reach that minute point, you have to hit “Pause” in your computer where you're playing it back and simply copy and paste this to yourself. Now, Dragon Naturally Speaking is a little bit better quality than Google's transcription goes but its a little bit work to go back and forth like that for a minute at a time. But if you're doing shorter videos like I do which is typically 3 to 5 minutes then its a great option and again its free for both of those. So that's it. This is Mike from www.epicmarketer.com. I'd like to hear your comments and if you have any other resource for transcribing your videos or audios, let me know. Talk to you soon.