I am convinced the Otter.ai is one of the best transcription apps out there.
Why?
Stick around.
If you're new to my channel, welcome, my name is Emily.
I created Definite Hearing as a way to increase awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing.
I'm hard of hearing myself.
I was diagnosed with my moderate to severe, genetic hearing loss at [birth, aided at]
the age of four months old, I wear hearing aids and I love them so so so so much.
Alright, I hope you stick around to the end of this video because if you do I'm going
to share some other transcription apps that I use in addition to Otter.ai.
Alright so let's start off with the first reason that I love Otter.ai: one, it's incredibly
accurate, Two: it is so easy to use.
I just open the app and hit the record button, and it just starts transcribing.
It's incredible.
The great news is Otter.ai has a pro lite version in which you can get 600 free transcribing
minutes every single month.
Now I do think that that's going to be expiring for me soon I think you get that free for
the first year and after that then you have to upgrade, which makes me super sad because
I love it when my 600 minutes, renew every single month, I don't use Otter.ai, all the
time.
I just use it in times of, like, when I go to church when I'm in work meetings, or when
I want to transcribe my YouTube videos.
Otter.ai is pretty accurate in terms of adding punctuation, and various mechanics to the
transcription, which I love.
All right, let's talk about some Otter.ai features that make it awesome.
The first one is the transcription format, like I said, you just go into Otter.ai, hit
the little record button, and it just starts transcribing, you can change your transcription
text size.
I just recently found out about this one, and I'm so grateful for it because even though
like young people might say "oh you have young eyes you're fine," it's really helpful to
make the text size bigger, so that I can hold my phone or my device farther away, and not
have to be like, "Yeah, I'm listening to you" while I'm reading my transcription that's
like teeny tiny!
Next you can to add speakers, I like to add my speakers, after my transcription is done
so I just go ahead and click the speaker icon and add a name.
Number three you can create groups.
This is especially helpful in an educational setting, you can use it for work meetings
as well or other meetings where you need to take notes.
I love doing this and it's super easy with Otter.ai because you just go to the note,
you can add group members and it will send the recording and the transcription straight
to them.
The next two items are very similar, they're search options, you can do a global search
so you can search all your notes that you've ever taken.
And then you can also do a local note search.
I love this because I would use this in school and I was like, Oh, the professor said that
one thing about like cellular division, what was that?
You can search cellular division, and it will pull it right up.
It's like so amazing and you can have the audio and the transcription, right next to
each other.
I love it Otter.ai is a great way to take notes, and I admit I even use this app in
family settings for example, when my grandparents start talking and I want to keep a record
of their story, I just open the app, hit record and let them talk, and this will allow me
to save their stories and they're all typed out with the audio and everything in one spot.
It's incredible.
There are so many applications for this technology, but obviously the most useful one for me is,
if I'm listening to something and I just need a little help, like, "oh I just missed that
sentence" I can look down, get it, and move on.
It takes the guesswork out of hearing for me, and I love that I absolutely love that.
Last but not least, this is another feature I don't use this one a lot, but it's there
and it can be so helpful, especially with cross-device platform usage.
This is a mobile and desktop device pair, you can put your devices next to each other,
and log into your account and it will have the notes on your mobile and on your laptop
or desktop is awesome!
It's so nice to how all of your information and easy to reach accessible device locations,
so I wanted to say the winning points of Otter.ai are that it's incredibly accurate.
Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to listen to the sounds in the recording and type out
what's being said now because it uses AI, there are some situations that I have found
that Otter.ai is not as accurate.
It's usually pretty accurate in the educational settings, but when I go to church.
It's not very accurate, like has trouble catching church terms like baptism, or Jesus Christ
or terms that are really relevant to my religion, and that makes sense because the artificial
intelligence hasn't had a lot of time in a given environment, it doesn't recognize those
words and it can't pump them out, so just know that if you are in a religious environment
or an environment in which the lingo is not as common as everyday language lingo, it may
not be as accurate, and that's okay.
That is one con I want to say a downside of Otter.ai, but this is hard because they can't
really control that I have a hard of hearing person, I want my transcription to be 110%
accurate and I'm like, What's the point of this, why is it not 110% accurate?
I just have to take a step back and realize that my hearing isn't accurate either so you
got to give or take, it's not perfect, it's like hearing aids too, you put your hearing
devices in, you expect to be able to hear everything.
And yes, you hear things but you still have to understand.
It's like that same concept, that it's not 110% accurate but it is still very accurate
and I love, like I said earlier, I love the punctuation in it, I love that it can capitalize
the letters at the beginning of a sentence.
Transcription in general, like, even on my YouTube videos when I do the automatic subtitles,
it doesn't catch the words right, it doesn't have punctuation, it doesn't have like properly
capitalized, words like I"" is never capitalized on YouTube and so it's really nice the Otter.ai
recognizes those sentence structure elements and implements those.
I love it.
So there is kind of an overview of Otter AI, as I started making this video I noticed,
oh my goodness, there's too much to add.
So I will be making another video that highlights the six top features of Otter.ai that were
not mentioned here so there are more cool gadgets and things that the app has that I
have been learning more about but I'm like, I need to share this like this is a big deal
that the app can do this so stick around, stick around for that video, it should be
out in the next couple of weeks and I'm super excited about that Otter.ai is awesome.
If you haven't already downloaded it, I'm going to include a link to download it in
the description below, just download it start exploring, see what you like about it, please
let me know what your thoughts are: what you like about it?
What you hate about it?
[Are there] things that you've noticed like other features?
Like I said, I could not mention all the features in this video, we would all get bored of listening
to me talk so stay tuned for that video.
I'm super excited to share it.
I am so glad you stuck around to the end of this video, here are some more transcription
tools you can use, aside from Otter.ai to help you read to hear another great transcription
app I use is AVA, A-V-A, that is also a transcription app I don't like that user interface as much
as I like Otter, but it works great so I just like to say, use both and figure out which
one you like the best.
The next is Google Docs has voice dictated notes to find this open a Google Doc, go to
the Help type it out.
I will say this one is very accurate, but it's better than nothing.
Next, you can use the caption settings on Google Hangouts, and now Zoom!
Zoom has it.
I've used it in my work meeting, it's like, surprisingly accurate, I love it, apparently,
Otter.ai and Zoom have teamed up, I'm so grateful they have, it's taking way too long to get
transcription on video chat platform so that has been awesome as well.
And make sure you do so like there are so many transcription options available out there,
now you know about Otter.ai.
That's a mobile one, you can use Google Hangouts, and Zoom captions on your desktop, laptop
and TV is getting more transcription options as well.
I actually use Otter.ai when I'm listening to TV too if I don't like the TV transcriptions.
So the sky's the limit.
Have you tried Otter.ai?
If so, I would love to hear in the comments below.
If you haven't already, please like this video and subscribe to my channel, I look forward
to making more awesome content for you.
Have a great day.
Bye.
Oh, also I wanted to mention I like purposely wore blue to match Otter.ai's logo.
I'm like, I consider myself an artistic person, and I like it when things match.
Does it drive me crazy when they don't?
It depends!
Anyway, I just hope you stay strong and stay amazing!
Until next time have a great day!