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Video Transcript
Upload a complete video transcript. This is a useful facility for ranking your video because
it is searchable content that helps with indexing your video in the You Tube search
and also Google. It also allows deaf viewers to read through videos and provides language
support.
The key benefit of a transcript is automatic timing, once you add your transcript, speech
recognition technology automatically matches your captions with what is said in the video.
The transcript must be in the same language as is spoken in the video.
There are two options for the transcript:
Type The text directly In YouTube
Go to your Video Manager and add captions. You'll be able to type what was said in your
video directly into the video transcript text box. Your video will automatically pause as
you type. This option is too time consuming.
Create a transcript file
Type the text of what was said in your video and save it as a plain text file (.txt). You
can do this by converting other formats (like Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF) into a plain text file. This is a better option, but don’t
do it yourself this is a waste of your time. You can get someone on fivver.com to do the
video transcript for you for $5. Here is a link for an example http://fiverr.com/mountaintop/transcribe-video-to-text-up-to-6-minutes.
Here is the process:
1. When the video has been uploaded to You Tube you can then get the video transcribed.
2. Name your text file whatever the title of your video is.
3. Go to the video manager within your You Tube account. 4. Click on edit for the video.
5. Click on Captions at the top and then click on the blue add captions button.
6. A drop down menu will appear, now select upload file.
7. A new screen comes up, now
select upload to locate the transcript file. 8. When you have uploaded it, Transcript sync
will progress and you need to wait a little time before it is live.
9. The transcript can be uploaded with just the text and You Tube will automatically create
the caption file with the time codes. 10. Click on the link next to Add to under
your You Tube Video. And you will see the transcript. As you watch the video you notice it auto scrolls for you.