TEACHER-Examples of programs for creating audio and video transcriptions

There are more tools than ever before to help you create audio and video transcriptions. Below are some examples of programs you could try. Feel free to search the web for additional tools.

The Google Docs Voice typing tool lets you create transcriptions of your audio and video recordings. To use the tool, your computer microphone needs to be on and working, and your speakers need to be turned up.

You can transcribe a Google Meet video meeting into a Google Doc. The transcribed file is saved in the host’s “Meet Recordings” folder in Google Drive, similar to meeting recordings. This feature can only be accessed when using Google Meet on a desktop or laptop computer.

After you create your presentation, click Slideshow at the top right of the page and start recording in Zoom.

Once the Slideshow starts, go to the bottom left of the page and click the three vertical dots, then click Captions Preferences and select Toggle captions.

The Kapwing subtitler allows you to burn subtitles into video directly, so that the captions appear on any platform the video gets shared to. Kapwing's subtitle editor supports videos of a variety of file formats and sizes, for free! With the free version, videos must be under 4 minutes long. You can use the auto subtitler for 10 minutes per month.

The transcribe feature converts speech to a text transcript with each speaker individually separated. You can save the full transcript as a Word document or insert snippets of it into existing documents. Transcribe up to 300 minutes of audio per month for free.

Chrome extension - Transcribe and caption Google Meet in real-time, add meeting notes in Google Calendar, and save transcripts to your Otter.ai account (300 minutes free every month; 3 file imports every month).

PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 can transcribe your words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language you are speaking, or as subtitles translated to another language.

Create videos with a single click. Add subtitles, transcribe audio, and more. With the free version, videos must be under 10 minutes and 250MB; you are only permitted to transcribe up to 30 min/month. A watermark gets added to the top of the video.

With your own YouTube channel, you can add closed captioning to your videos.

Audio transcription automatically transcribes the audio of a meeting or webinar that you record to the cloud. After the transcript is processed, you can download the transcript as a separate file. In addition, you can display the transcript text with the video itself, similar to a closed caption display.