Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel Jennifer Marie vo where I teach you different ways
that you can make money online working from home. If you are one of my subscribers, you know that a
lot of my videos focus on how to make money online as a transcriptionist where you transcribe or type
out audio or video files for different platforms or for different clients. So doing this manually
takes a lot of work. So there are several different ways that you can automatically
transcribe audio files directly to text that you can then manually edit for any spelling or
punctuation errors. So in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how you can transcribe automatically
for free without any limits, you can transcribe as many audio or video files as you like, and you
don't need to pay anything. So what you will need is a VB audio virtual cable which is free, and I'm
going to show you how to download and install that you can get the link to this in the description
below. And you also need to have Google Docs. Now, again, Google Docs is completely free, you just
need a Google or Gmail account, which you can also create for free. So the first thing you need to do
is download this audio virtual cable by going to the VB audio link in the description below. And
then click on audio apps. So basically, VB cable is a virtual audio device working as a virtual
audio cable, all audio coming in the cable input is simply forwarded to the cable output. So what
this means is that we can use the dictate tool in Google Docs to automatically transcribe our files,
I did a tutorial on how to use the speech to text feature. But with that feature, you would have to
actually say everything that you want Google to transcribe. But by using this virtual audio cable,
we just have to click play and wait, as Google is going to be listening directly
to the audio file that we're going to play and transcribing that directly. This makes the process
super easy. Okay, so go ahead and download the VB cable driver,
either for Windows or Mac. Okay, so now locate where you installed the file on your computer.
And you're going to right click on the file and go extract files. And then click OK. So that's going
to extract all of the files in a folder. So I'll double click on the folder, and then locate the
one that you have to install. So you're either going to have to install the VB cable setup,
or this one if you have a 64 bit computer. So then what you're going to do is right click on it
and go run as administrator. Okay, and now you're going to click Install driver, make sure to run
as administrator otherwise it won't allow you to install it. Now make sure to watch this entire
video before you install the driver. Because once you install the audio driver, you will not be able
to hear any sound coming out of your speakers, because it's going to change your output speaker
to the virtual cable. So you can follow along with this video if you like. But just turn on
the subtitles, so you can read what I'm telling you to do. And they'll also tell you how to
change it back so you can hear the sound from your speakers again, then click Install. So it will say
installation complete and successful, you might reboot your system to finalize installation.
So what you're going to do now is go down to your Windows system tray,
and you're going to right click on the sound icon. And then go to open sound settings.
And here under the sound tab, you want your output to be the cable input. This should be done
automatically once you install it. Now if you want to go back to being able to
hear out of your speakers, click on this and go to speaker or headphones or whatever you want your
output device to be. But remember, you won't be able to hear anything coming from your computer
when you do this. So make sure you change this to cable input. And then input you want to change
to cable output. So now we're going to go to Google Docs. And you're going to start a new
document. Remember, Google Docs is completely free. You just need a Gmail or Google account,
so you can click on blank. So what we're going to do is go to Tools, voice typing.
So now what you can do is open up your file on your computer.
And what I want is I want Google Docs to automatically transcribe one of my videos
for my YouTube channel. So what you're going to do is click on the microphone and then press play
on whatever file on your computer that you want Google to automatically transcribe and just wait
until the file finishes. I'm going to click play first and then click on the microphone button.
So you can see that it has done a pretty good job of transcribing this file automatically for me,
of course, there are some things I would have to go and change and edit.
But overall, it's done a great job, and it's much less work to do it this way.
You can also use this same method in Microsoft Word. Now you can create your own account on
office.com. And you do not need to pay anything, I don't have the premium version. So go ahead,
create an account. And then you're going to launch word and click on new blank document.
Now once you do that, you're going to click on dictate This here is in Spanish because I have
the Spanish version, but that's fine, just click on dictate. And you're going to choose
allow to allow the website to use your microphone. And now you can click on the Settings icon here.
And you can choose the language that we're speaking so I'm going to choose English.
And then again, make sure that your microphone is selected the output cable
you can also turn on automatic punctuation. And this here is a filter. If you don't want any,
you know bad words or curse words, I'm going to turn that off, and then choose
accept. So now I'm going to press play on my video and then press the microphone icon.
And you can see that just like that it has transcribed everything that I played from
that audio file. And it did an excellent job. I'm not seeing almost any errors here. So make sure
to turn on the auto punctuation as I taught you before. And this requires very little editing.
So once you're finished, what you can do is press Ctrl A and then Ctrl C to copy or right click
and go to copy. And then we can go ahead into grammerly and right click and put paste as plain
text for whatever reason when we just paste it it doesn't pick up as many errors but paste as plain
text it does. In this I have the free version of Grammarly. You can see that it's telling me to add
a comma here. And then also these are all different additional writing issues that are
available for premium users. But you can see here that this will give you an idea of where you may
be need to add a comma or make some sort of edits. And to change your audio settings back to how they
originally were, you're just going to right click on the speaker icon go to open sound settings. And
then here you're just going to change your output device back to your headphones or to your speaker.
You know enter your normal microphone or whatever you want for your input and your output devices.
And once you do that your laptop or your computer will be restored to normal and you'll be able to
hear the audio once again. So I really hope you guys enjoy this tutorial. This is an awesome way
to automatically transcribe for free there are no limits whatsoever. You can do this as long
as you want for as long as the files are. All you have to do is press play and then just walk away
and Once the file has fully played out, you will have your transcript ready for you to edit and
send to your client or upload to your website or whatever it is that you need a transcription for.
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a work from home freelancer. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in my next tutorial.