Hello everybody, welcome to my channel Jennifer Marie VO. In my
channel, I teach you different ways to make money online and
some of those ways are transcribing audio to text and
getting paid to do it. If you haven't already subscribed to my
channel, make sure to do that. So today I want to walk you
through this software. And it's free, up to 600 minutes per
month: otter.ai. And this is basically a software or a
website where you can upload an audio file and it will
transcribe it for you with pretty close to perfect
punctuation and spelling and allow you to edit that file
easily so that you can then use that transcription file and
submit it or upload it or copy and paste it to one of your job
platforms. Now I will make a note that some different
platforms do not allow you to do this like QA world for example.
But there are other ones that don't care if you do it. And
this is also a great tool if you are taking a transcription test
and they send you or they have you download an audio file that
you later need to transcribe. This is an easier way for you to
transcribe the file without having to type the entire file
out yourself. And you simply have to make some edits. There's
a lot of uses for this software. So let me just walk you through
how to create an account and how to go about doing this. So
first, you're going to go to otter.ai. Then you're going to
click on Sign Up free, and you can choose to sign up with
Apple, your Google account, Microsoft. I just put in my
first and last name and my email, then I put in a password
and then click on create account.
You can choose to sync your calendar and contacts. I didn't
want to do that. So I just clicked go to the app. Okay,
make sure to confirm your email. And once you do that, you can go
ahead and go back to otter.ai. You click that you confirmed.
Okay, so now you're in the home website and it might be a little
bit confusing what to do at first, but all you have to do is
click on my conversations. And once you do that, you can click
on Import audio/video. Now what you have to do is click on
Browse files. And so if you have the file that you want to
transcribe located on your computer, go and find it. If you
don't have the file on your computer, there's many different
ways you can right click Save As and save an audio file to your
computer. Again, it just depends on the website that you're
using. So for this example, I've decided to take my own file from
one of my videos on my English teaching website. And I've
uploaded it, clicked open and now you can see that the file
will start to upload. It will track your progress. Okay, and
once it's completely uploaded, just click on done. Okay, now
you might need to wait up to... it could be up to five minutes
depending on the length of your file, while it processes the
file and transcribes it for you. Okay, now you can see that this
has completely finished processing. And if we scroll
down, you can see that it has transcribed the entire audio
file for me. And it's done a pretty good job of, you know,
putting in correct punctuation and everything. So what we can
do is, we can press the play button to preview this. And it's
really cool because it will play the audio file for you. And it
will highlight the words so you can see if it matches up. And if
not, you can correct the word so let's press play to preview
this. Hello everyone and welcome to Sparkle English. Today's mini
lesson is on the difference between effect and effect. It is
very common for English language. Okay, we'll just press
the pause button again to stop it. Now if you want to edit
this, if there's any mistakes, we just go up here and click
Edit. Okay, so for this one, I'm gonna edit this because this is
the title. Now this one's an interesting one because there
are going to be a few mistakes because this is for my youtube
channel on teaching English. So I wanted to say this is affect
with an A and this is with E. Okay, for example here they put
right R-I-G-H-T and this should be write. So what you do is you
just edit it like you would any text editor. So for some reason,
this is not adding in all the different capitals, but we can
just go through it and edit it accordingly.
Okay, great. So I've just finished editing this entire
clip here. So it's saving automatically as you can see.
One thing neat is down here, you can actually change the speed as
well. So let's say you're listening to someone and you're
not exactly sure what they're saying and you're trying to
transcribe this audio file, you can put the speed down to 0.5 or
you can speed it up even if you want. And then press play again.
Comments section of this video. I hope... They also have an
option that you can click in your speaker ID. So let's say I
just want to make it my name for both of these. I can do that.
Now imagine that this was two different speakers, I could
click here and I could add in whatever label I wanted. So
let's say I'm gonna make this speaker two and click tag. And
then let's say I'll make this one speaker one. Just depends on
what your purpose is of using this software, but for example,
let's just say this was speaker one, and this was speaker two.
And you can just click like this if you want to break up the
paragraphs. And if you wanted to change the speaker, you can just
click on it again and select a different speaker. Now for this,
it's one speaker, it's just me and the entire clip, but this is
how you would do it if you were changing between different
speakers. Now of course, this is with otter.ai so the formatting
of this might not be what you want. So now I want to teach you
what to do when you want to export this, whether you're
going to copy and paste this into a transcription website to
submit your file, or maybe you're doing a test or something
and you have to email them a file, for example, with a way
with words or transcription hub. I'm going to click on Done. And
now we'll click on this little three dot icon, and we're going
to click on Export text. Okay, so you have different options
here. You can change the export format: clipboard, or text. Now
they have docx, PDF, and SRT. All of these are premium files.
So you're just going to use clipboard or text. Let's just
stick with text. And you can choose to export like this.
Speaker one, and then we've got speaker two. You can toggle on
and off if you want to include the speaker names, or include
the timestamps, or merge the same speaker segments. So if I
kept the speaker names as before, you'd see I'd have
Speaker one, Speaker one, Speaker one, Speaker one,
Speaker two. Now for me, I'm just going to take everything
off because I don't want it to have any formatting. I'd rather
put in the speakers later on. So as you can see, if we scroll
down here, this is just a raw copy of the entire file, edited
and transcribed and later on, I can put in the speaker IDs
depending on what I want. Now note that at the very bottom, it
says transcribed by otter.ai, so make sure you erase this. Now
what I'm going to do is click Continue. You can also choose
Export as monologue and that just merges the entire file all
the paragraphs together so you can separate them later on. I'm
going to take that off. I'm just gonna I just want it like this.
Okay, so I'm going to click Continue. And now it's saved it
as a .txt file. So you can go ahead and open it with notepad.
Or maybe if you have notepad++, I'll just open it with notepad.
You can see it, I have the entire file right here
transcribed for me. So I'm going to go ahead and erase that last
part. And now depending on what you want to do, you can go edit,
select all, then edit, copy, or just press Ctrl C on your
keyboard, and then you can go ahead and paste it wherever you
want to paste it. Maybe you want to paste it into one of your
transcription job platforms, or if you're doing a test a
transcription test for like I said before, way with words or
transcription hub or something like that. And you need to paste
this into a Microsoft document, you can do that as well. So
overall, I think this is a really awesome tool otter.ai.
I'm really happy one of my subscribers told me about it,
it's really cool. It's a great way for you to be able to
transcribe an audio file that you have, and see all the
punctuation. And it really does most of the work for you. You
just need to read it through and make small corrections, maybe
change some capital letters, and some small English errors, but
then you have a nice transcript that you can use and submit to
your job platforms. Again, some different jobs. websites do not
allow you to do this. So that is up to you what you decide and
which platforms you're working with. But if you are able to do
this, it is highly recommended because it will save you a lot
of time having to type out every single word yourself. So thank
you very much for watching this tutorial. I hope you found it
useful and make sure to subscribe to my channel for more
tips and tricks on transcribing and making money online. Thanks
for watching.