Hello everyone!
Welcome to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different ways to make money
online and become a work from home freelancer.
Many of my tutorials are related to making money as a transcriber or transcriptionist
by converting audio to text or transcribing.
Oftentimes in order to transcribe the audio file accurately, you’ll need to make some
adjustments to the audio by removing background noise, amplifying the audio or even changing
the speed.
I have a tutorial on how to remove background noise and improve audio quality that I will
link to in the description below.
I also have a tutorial on how to convert audio to text automatically by uploading the audio
file into a free automatic transcription software so all you need to do is edit and proofread
the text rather than typing it all out on your own.
HOWEVER, in order to do either of the above steps, you need to have an audio file like
mp3 or even video file like mp4.
And most of these transcription websites don’t have an option for you to download the audio
directly.
That is why today’s tutorial is so important.
I’ve discovered two FREE Google Chrome extensions that you can use to download either audio
or video from any website.
I’ve tried this on Rev, TranscribeMe, Scribie, and CrowdSurf, although I will note that certain
platforms including QA World do not allow you to do this, so I am not promoting this
method for those platforms that don’t allow it.
It is up to you to decide the risks you’re taking when downloading an audio or video
file from these websites, but this tutorial is simply to demonstrate to you that it is
possible to download an audio file.
So the first one I am going to show you is for how to download any video.
Let’s say you are a REV captioner, or transcribing audio from video for Crowdsurf and want to
download the video file to make edits to the audio so you can understand it better.
We will install Bulk Media Downloader from the extensions category of the Google Chrome
Web Store.
Again, this is a free extension, and this extension is also available for Firefox.
Just click on Add to Chrome and then click Add Extension.
It will automatically download and add itself to your toolbar.
This is the extension right here, so let’s just click it and maximize the window.
Now, let’s go over to Rev to try it out.
Say I have decided to caption this video, and I want to download the video so I can
make some changes to improve the audio quality or even run it through an audio or video to
text software.
Make sure that your video is open in Rev and refresh the page, then click on the Bulk Media
downloader.
If you don’t see any files pop up, you’ll need to refresh the page on Rev again.
Then you’ll be looking under “Type” for an mp3 or mp4 file.
So here you’ll see under Type, there’s an option to download this video/mp4 file,
and you’ll see it’s 257 MB.
Then select the file by clicking on the box and making sure it is the only one selected.
Then click Download (browser) And it will automatically download to your
computer to your Downloads folder or to wherever you have set the default downloads.
You can click on the arrow beside the file and click “Show in Folder” to view where
it is.
And now from here, you can listen to it on your computer, edit the audio in Audacity
as you’ll see in my other tutorial, or run it through an audio to text software.
Now I’ll do the same thing on Crowdsurf to demonstrate how it works there.
Again, make sure to refresh the page once you open the Bulk Media downloader in case
the files don’t pop up right away.
And also click Clear list to remove the files from other webpages.
Now I want to demonstrate another extension that is ideal for audio downloading.
It’s more simple than Bulk Media Downloader and works especially well for audio.
It’s called Audio Downloader Prime and again is for Chrome and you can download it for
free from the Chrome webstore.
Then click Add to Chrome, and then Add Extension.
It is this icon right here.
So now let’s try this out with TranscribeMe.
I’ve been assigned this little file right here, again I’ll refresh the page.
Then click on Audio Downloader Prime.
And you’ll see the audio files available to download.
Here, there’s only one which is the audio file from TranscribeMe.
You can see the file name and also the size of the file.
Just click on Download, and it will automatically download to your computer into your default
download folder.
Again, just click on the file to play it in your media player, and now you can use this
file to edit in audacity or in an audio to text software.
I’ll try this using Scribie using the same method.
And you’ll see, it works just as perfectly as before!
So now that you know how to download mp3 files, mp4, or audio and video files from any website,
you can watch my next tutorial on how to improve audio quality, increase volume and remove
background noise in your clips.
And then watch my third tutorial on how to convert audio files to text using a free transcription
software.
By doing this, you’ll have a nice clean transcript that you can edit and submit to
your job platforms.
This whole process makes it so much easier to understand the audio, especially difficult
audio, and to help automate the process of converting audio to text.
So I hope you enjoyed my tutorial on how to download audio from any website.
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