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This content outlines five free and fast methods to transcribe YouTube videos, emphasizing how these transcripts can be leveraged to increase video views and reach a wider audience through repurposing.
imagine being able to transcribe any
YouTube video in mere seconds without
spending a dime in this video you'll
discover five fast free and simple
methods that will attract thousands of
extra views to your videos You'll also
learn how to repurpose your video
transcription to expose your content to
a wider audience here's how to use the
built-in transcript feature on YouTube
choose a video from a YouTube dashboard
I'm going to choose this one click on
details click on the video link to play
the video click on more scroll down
under transcript click show transcript
on the right I have the autogenerated
transcript from YouTube If I want to
copy the text I just highlight all the
text then I can place it in a text file
here's my text file with all the
timestamps as you can see it's not a
perfect transcription because the
sentences are not capitalized and has no
periods at the end of the sentence
before I discuss the next method let's
look at some of the top benefits of
adding a transcript to your video
improve accessibility transcripts make
content accessible to wider audience
including those that are deaf or heart
of hearing better SEO search engines can
index a text in your transcript which
improves the visibility of your video
and the search results enhance user
experience viewers can read the captions
on your video generated from your
transcript this makes it easier to
understand your video and engage with
your content multil language support
transcripts can be translated into other
languages allowing you to reach a global
audience for example I click on this Cog
icon for this video that has a
transcript under subtitles and CC I've
got English United States but I can also
select autot translate and I can select
a different language for my video to be
translated into that means anyone
watching my video in a different
language will be able to understand the
content later I'll talk about how you
can repurpose the content from your
transcript to get thousands or more
views turbos cribe AI transcription
service turbos cribe offers unlimited
audio and video transcription and it
converts your video into text in seconds
the free version gives you three free
daily transcripts which is more than
enough sign up to turbos cribe at turbos
tribe. link is in the description click
transcribe your first file you can drag
and drop your files here or you can
browse the files on your computer click
browse files I'm going to select this
video 3 minute shorts not working here's
why click open now it's transcribe my
video into English but I can transcribe
it into all these different languages if
I wish click transcribe it says the
transcript is complete and I've used one
of three daily subscriptions click the
three dots click export transcript I can
select one or more formats from this
list I'm going to select export as text
and here's my transcribe video by toes.
a as you can see all the sentences are
capitalized and end with a period here's
how to add your transcript to YouTube
video delete the first sentence where it
says transcribe by turbos cribe delete
the last sentence where it says
transcribe by turos cribe save the text
file to your computer go to your video
Details page scroll down and click on
subtitles here are three options to add
captions to my video I can upload a
transcript file which means it contains
a text of what is said in the video aut
sync where I can type or paste in the
full transcript of my video and subtitle
timings will be set automatically if I
type manually it creates titles and
close captions by typing them in as I
watch the video which is time consuming
I'm going to click autosync I'm going to
copy all the transcript and just paste
it in here and click edit timings
automatically it'll create all the time
codes for the content and click done as
you can see the captions now appear on
the video as the video is playing turbos
scribe is fast free and very accurate
link is in the description YouTube
summary with chat GPT is a free Chrome
extension that let you summarize any
video on YouTube Simply install a free
Chrome extension to get started
link is in the description on the right
of the video that you're watching you'll
see transcript and summary if you click
on that you'll see a transcript of the
video you can also summarize the video
you can copy the transcript jump to the
current time or summarize the video in a
new tab or summarize the video on the
page the beauty of this Chrome extension
is that you can get a transcript of any
video on YouTube and it's free and easy
to use let's look at the ways you can
repurpose a transcript so you can reach
a wider audience translate into multiple
languages 80% of YouTube views come from
outside the US and eight of the top 10
countries with the most YouTube users
are non englishspeaking countries
therefore it makes sense to translate
your content into different languages so
you can reach a global audience if you
subscribe just upload your video file
then choose your audio language I'm
going to select German click transcribe
and here's my German transcription if
you click on the three dots I can open
the transcript export it share it rename
the file or delete the file here's how
to add the transcript to your video on
YouTube click on subtitles under video
subtitles click add language German
click on the pencil icon and you can
upload your file or you can click Auto
translate this will translate the
subtitles from your original video
language to The Chosen language and
here's my video translated into German
create a blog post upload or post a
transcript to your blog as sh on here so
it gets indexed by the search engin
here's the article from my blog
displayed in Google search if you embed
your YouTube video in the article it can
rank on Google search as shown here
create an audio file if you create an
audio file from your video transcript
you can upload it as a podcast to
YouTube and other podcast sharing sites
this will enable you to reach a wider
audience with your content Google's
notebook LM feature can turn any
document or video into a deep
conversation link is in the description
take a listen to a few seconds of this
transcribed audio file you'll be amazed
a lot of creators myself included are
seeing these 3 minute videos showing up
as regular videos instead of shorts mhm
but YouTube says this is temporary yeah
and this is where I think it's it's
helpful to understand a little bit about
how the algorithm works oh yeah the new
audio overview feature can turn your
transcript or video into engaging Deep
dive discussions with one click here's
how to create your audio file using
notebook LM go to notebook lm. goole.com
click create new drag and drop or choose
a file to upload so I'm going to click
choose file I'm going to select my video
file click open here's a summary of my
video content audio overview and
suggested questions to create an audio
file that has a deep dive conversation
between two hosts in English click
generate says generating conversation
this may take a few minutes no need to
stick around let's play the audio of the
Deep dive conversation generated from
notebook LM buckle up because today we
are diving deep into the world of
YouTube shorts specifically those three
minute ones that are well kind of acting
a little funky yeah we're taking a look
at a YouTube video actually that breaks
down the whole situation it's called
thre minute shorts not working here's
why now you know how to repurpose your
video transcript into a deep dive
discussion Between Two Hosts here are
four other ways you can repurpose your
video transcript social media posts
extract quotes stat or tips and use them
as Standalone social media posts ebook
or guide compile a transcript from a
series of videos on a related topic that
can be put into a guide or ebook that
your audience can purchase or download
checklist or cheat sheet simplify a
transcript into a checklist or cheat
sheet for quick reference this can be
offered as a free download to attract
New Leads email newsletter summarize the
main points from a video transcript and
share the insights with your subscribers
this will help Drive traffic back to
your original video resulting in many
more views if you want to get more
traffic leads and sales using YouTube
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