- Since about August, 2017,
I've spent over $2,473 and 24 cents with Rev.com.
Now, why is that?
I mean, good Lord, that's a lot of money.
You would think come, oh man,
there's got to be some worth to it
if he's spending this much money.
Well, we're gonna be talking about that
in my updated Review of Rev.com
and we're going to be talking is Rev.com worth it
for $1.25 per minute?
Stay tuned.
Hey, what's up?
It's Dale here
and we're gonna be talking a little bit about Rev today
and why I use this platform.
But before we do jump into it,
I just want to let you know that I am a Rev affiliate.
So if you happen to make any kind of purchases
through the links that I'll be mentioning here,
I do get a financial kickback on that,
but I don't just get behind any old service
and, you know, try to promote anything
without feeling like it's a good quality product.
So spoiler alert, I really do like Rev,
but we're gonna go ahead and pull out all the stops
and talk a little bit more about it in today's video.
Stick around to the very end,
because I'm actually gonna give you $10 off coupon
for first time users.
That's essentially equated
to about eight minutes of a transcript or caption
for your YouTube video.
First of all, what is Rev?
Okay, so this is not like the movie Rev.
This is actually a service called Rev.
And Rev does audio transcribing, video captioning
and subtitling.
And now, they have a few other smaller little services,
and we're gonna be talking about that pretty soon.
And the reason why
I decided to go ahead and talk about Rev again,
because more recently
they are in a partnership with YouTube.
So you know that people got to sit up and take notice
if a large company like YouTube
or Alphabet for that matter, that owns YouTube,
partners up with another company.
Let's start out with one of the features.
It's the transcriptions.
Now this runs about a $1.25 per minute
with a 12 hour turnaround time.
Now, with all of these features
I'm gonna be talking about,
you can either do it through say a video
or an audio track of some sort,
and you just end up uploading that.
Um, now, so with that being said,
why would you get transcriptions?
It just depends on what your end goal's gonna be.
So I have a lot of viewers
on my channel here that are authors
and some of them are a bit more time strapped.
And rather than sitting down and pecking away at a keyboard,
you might be thinking to yourself,
well, why don't I just go ahead and voice dictate a book?
Sure, you could use something
like say Dragon NaturallySpeaking
but that still has a lot of room for error,
whereas you get a service like this
that has a 99% accuracy guarantee,
it's definitely worth considering
versus just trying to just
hustle your way through a manuscript.
And let's just say you need some meeting notes
and you want to kind of break that down
and have it to where your whole staff
can be able to utilize it.
A transcript is another great way of doing things.
Here's the really cool thing
is if you have numerous speakers on the video or audio,
they'll be able to break down the name
of each person who's talking when they do.
The next feature is captions for video.
Now this is the one that I have utilized 99.9% of the time.
It runs $1.25 per minute
with roughly a 24 hour turnaround time.
Now this really largely is based
on how much video or audio you give to them.
So for instance, I've uploaded say five to 10 minute videos,
and they'll have it turned around within a couple hours
sometimes even sooner.
So they work at a very breakneck pace.
Now the type of format you're gonna get
when it comes to captions
is just about any file format imaginable.
But if you're utilizing it on say YouTube
or say LinkedIn or elsewhere,
what you will need is an SRT file.
Now the beauty of the relationship between YouTube and Rev
is you can actually get it
to where you integrate the two of them together,
and all you have to do is put in your order
and it just automatically uploads,
or you can allow them to automatically upload
your SRT files over to YouTube.
So as soon as you pay them, they fulfill that order,
it goes right over to your YouTube channel.
So you're probably starting to wonder,
like, why am I gonna use captions for videos?
What exactly is the purpose?
And actually I dug back into a Rev blog
and I thought I'd just go ahead
and just tell you what they said
'cause I agree with it.
And it all comes down to five specific reasons
when it comes to getting captions.
And one of them is going to be accessibility.
I am notorious for going to bed
and I typically will toss and turn.
And so instead of tossing and turning,
sometimes I'll just roll over
and I'll turn on YouTube and I'll watch some videos.
Now, naturally my wife
is not going to appreciate me turning on the volume
and waking her up.
So I'll just typically turn on captions.
The problem is with the auto captions
when it comes to YouTube, it's not the best.
Okay, it's not entirely accurate.
And sometimes it makes it near impossible to read.
So that's why I don't like to rely on that.
When it comes to accessibility for my channel,
I want to get it to where everyone can be able to watch it,
whether they're laying next to their partner at night
while they're trying to sleep,
or if for some reason you have some type of a hearing issue
and you can be able to read the content.
The second reason is indexing for SEO.
A lot of people want to know
like, hey, why do you do captions
and how is it that you show up over on Google
for a lot of your content
when it comes to self publishing?
And it all comes back to captions.
I've been doing it for the past few years on,
I would say 75% of my videos.
The live ones, I typically don't throw those on there
because they're a little longer
and it's a little bit more costly.
Now you're probably saying
what's indexing for SEO?
It's search engine optimization.
The thing is with search engines,
they can crawl text, but they can't crawl videos.
So in other words, it's not gonna be able
to go through the video
and figure out what you're talking about.
But if you have an SRT file of some sort there's text there.
So it's going to be able to index your content
and get it to where you're more discoverable.
The third reason is going to be the user experience.
So again, it's coming back
to understanding what your users going to need.
And most importantly,
this is the next reason
is going to be support for ESL learners,
meaning English as a second language.
So sometimes having the captions
gets it to where someone who's just learning English
can take their time and read what you're saying
and be able to understand that a little better.
And the fifth, most important reason
why it's going to improve your average watch time.
Uh, really the more that you can give to people
in value inside your videos,
the longer they're gonna stay.
Now, another feature that Rev actually had,
they just rolled it out over the last year,
and it's their auto captioning feature.
Now you're probably saying, but wait, hang on a second,
you said YouTube has auto captions,
why would I want to spend money on it?
Well, it's only 25 cents per minute
and they have a ridiculous
like five minute turnaround time.
So essentially as soon as you upload it, it's ready to go.
Unlike the other features, it has an 80% accuracy.
Now the difference between YouTube auto captions
and Rev auto captions
is Rev actually takes the time
to break down sentence structure.
So I did a couple of videos
and they actually offer 45 minutes
for free through auto captions
for those of you holding a Rev account.
Go in and test it out.
And it's really not too bad.
In fact, I'll leave a link to the two videos down below,
and I'm not gonna change anything about the captions.
You can go and watch those
and see for yourself how well they were able to auto caption
a couple of my live videos.
The next feature they have is translations.
Now, if you would like to get your video
captioned into different languages,
then this is going to be the option for you.
The thing is, is it varies per language.
It can be $3 to $7 per translated minute,
and they have about a 24 hour turnaround.
Now I tried a handful of videos with Spanish.
I noticed some results for it,
but ultimately at the end of the day,
I kind of thought to myself,
okay, um, is this going to be a worthy investment
or should I see about investing in more English captions
to cover those other ones?
In due time, I imagine I might go back and utilize that
for some of my audience that might be Spanish speakers
or even Hindi,
because I knew I have a large audience over in India
that would probably really appreciate
some of these captions.
The really cool thing is if you do order translations,
I would recommend that you hold off
in ordering the regular English captions
because they automatically will do the English captions
and then include the translated one.
So it's kind of cool.
You put in the order,
you'll get the English captions delivered
and the next thing you know,
you'll get the translated language captions
delivered as well.
And if you are a Zoom user
and you're doing conferencing and meetings with some staff,
then you might be considering live captions for Zoom
and it runs about $20 per user for a month.
And much like the auto captions feature,
it's not perfect,
but it's definitely a good suitable replacement
for anybody that might be trying to join a meeting
and trying to keep notes with what's going on.
So I've spent nearly $2,500
over the past few years through Rev.com.
And a lot of people are saying, you know,
hey, is it worth it or will you spend more?
Well, of course it's worth it.
I've already spent that much.
And I've seen my channel grow
exponentially over the past few years
just adding that little extra layer
of support and value on this channel.
Think about what it is with your goals.
If you're video content creator,
it might make sense to add it to it.
If you're a author that is strapped for time
and wants to get a transcript, awesome.
Same thing goes for the translation,
and same thing goes for the Zoom services.
You got to think to yourself,
is it gonna be worth it for yo?
Well, you're gonna have to test it out for yourself.
I told you I'd hook you up
with a $10 coupon off your first time purchase.
That's roughly about eight minutes of content.
And actually you can visit dalelinks.com/rev.
I'm going to put her right here, dalelinks.com/rev,
and you can get $10 off your first purchase.
And speaking of Rev, I actually have a big tip for you,
and I'm gonna show you how to use Rev transcriptions
for blogging ideas
and I'm gonna give you a few other tips.
So go over here, take a look at this next video
where I talk a little bit more
about how you can utilize Rev for that purpose.
See you there.