How to convert an audio sound or video

Recently I was faced with a task : Convert audio and video files into text. Since I have never dealt with this issue, then, as always, I got on the Internet and started googling how people do it. After all, it's not a secret for anyone that many people and even professional companies that have built a business on it are engaged in transcription / transcription.

Wikipedia gives us: The act of recording a transcription is called transcription.

In a sense, the transmission of sound and writing it is the same transcription, but here we are not interested in what transcription is, but how to use it for practical purposes.

Why transcription into printed text may be needed

Let's say you have an audio recording of a seminar or an audiobook that you want to save in text form for easier information retrieval. Indeed, in the text you can always use the search and the text takes up much less space than audio and video.

You have several paths:

contact the company and pay about 16 rubles per minute of the file;
find a freelancer who will make it all cheaper for you;
do it yourself manually, listening and typing;
do it yourself, listening and dictating;
do it yourself using special programs.
Since you did not want to delegate to another, but ended up on this page, I can conclude that you are interested in understanding the process in detail and doing everything yourself. Everyone knows that if you want to do well, do it yourself.

By the way, if you still choose to dictate the text with a voice, then in this article I will just give the answer on how to do it best. And yet, if you think that you will be too lazy to do all this - contact those who make money on it. For example to the assistant https://essayassistant.org/transcribing/.

So…

Google Translate is just a translator and more

This monster knows, if not everyone, then almost everyone! It is located at translate.google . Everything is very simple, go to the site, click on the microphone and record and instant transcription went. Then you can just copy and paste wherever you want. Here is such a translator into English or a sound to text translator.

As you know, Google is very good. It is a company that is constantly improving its technologies in the creation of Internet search, cloud computing and additional services. Most recently, they announced a voice-to-text service, and today it is already the most popular. Why? Because all phones - androids began to use voice commands and in general it is very convenient. And Google is already built into phones from the very beginning.

To translate an audio file or a video from youtube into text , just start the file first, and then go to the document window and click record. Wait and watch as a miracle happens before your eyes. Then it remains to edit and design and the text is ready! It happens that the recording is too bad. This requires manual processing and for this you may need a professional essay assistant .

In general, Google Translate captures speech from sound with the best quality and you can already use this by placing punctuation marks. Use it to your health, you quickly get used to good things.

Of the minuses, I can note that at the moment you can write a text document only 5000 characters long. If you need to dictate or recognize several sentences, then this tool will suit you because of its simplicity. But if you have longer texts and you want to be able to transcribe text of any length with Google accuracy, then the following tool is more suitable for you.