The YouTube mobile app, as well as the web version for PC, has improved significantly over the years. One of these improvements is related to video transcriptiona feature available for both mobile phones and computers allows access to an automatic transcription of the audio of any video i.e. within the respective platform.
If for some reason you can’t hear the audio in a video or the automatically generated subtitles that YouTube offers aren’t working for you, you can transcribe any video for free and without the need to use third-party tools, since this function is integrated into the platform in question.
In this article we will explain it to you in a few steps how to transcribe YouTube videos from your mobile phone and computer: The procedure to follow is very simple and will not take you more than 2 minutes to apply it to any video.
Here’s how you can transcribe YouTube videos to text on mobile phones and PCs
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, this feature transcribes any YouTube video into text It is available on both Android, iOS and PC. Below we will explain how to use it in the web version from any computer:
- You have to first open the video you want to transcribe.
- Once inside it, you need to click on the option that says “Further”which you can find in the video description.
- Therefore, you will have to click on the button that says “Show transcript”.
- In a few seconds, YouTube will show you the transcript of the video in question.
The procedure to follow on Android and iOS It’s very similar. Likewise, below we will leave you a step-by-step guide to make transcribing YouTube videos to text from any mobile device much easier:
- Open the YouTube app from your mobile device.
- Play the video you want to transcribe. Once inside, click on “Further”.
- Press the button that says “Show transcript”.
- YouTube will display a small section from which you can see the transcript of the video in real time.
It’s worth noting This feature is available worldwideso it is not necessary to have YouTube Premium, nor to download the beta version of the app on Android. Of course, if you want to use this feature without errors, we recommend updating the application to the latest version (includes various improvements regarding transcriptions).
