As remote work has been generalized, our working conditions have changed a lot. Our face-to-face meetings have been replaced by a succession of virtual meetings, whether on Zoom, Google Meet or Skype.
In this respect, not easy to stay focused- even though you can enjoy the comfort of your own home!
One of the issue of this work configuration is to know how to get documented records of these video meetings. In fact, transcripts can give you a better overview of the conversation outcomes and the information discussed.
Although Zoom can provide an automatic transcription service, you can only use it for meetings saved on the Cloud. Here we show you a more efficient way of doing the job and it works every time. Follow our guide!
With virtual conf-calls, you sometimes feel like you don't remember much from all the conversations you have all day- maybe in the same way as when we used to meet face-to-face.
Yet, the advantage of digital meetings is that you can record and transcribe their content. You can also improve the written design and make it more shareable. All you need is the right tools.
But, besides that, there are many other reasons to produce transcripts of your meetings:
If you are interested, here is the best way to manage your transcription process.
As you can imagine, transcribing by yourself is not the best idea. Doing Transcription requires a lot of time and specific skills - that's why there are professional transcribers!
To get the job done, Zoom has introduced a good automated transcription solution for some time now, but it is reserved for partners and customers using their Cloud meeting service.
Fortunately, there are a growing number of voice-recognition-assisted solutions on the net that will speed up your work. Let's talk here specifically about our automatic transcription solution Checksub.com.
Why Checksub? Because it has many advanced features:
If you want to give it a shot, here's how to do it fairly quickly with this tool.
To start, you need to be in a Zoom meeting. In the interface, you will be able to start a video recording in your discussions by simply clicking on "Record".
When you stop this recording with the same button, the video will also stop recording. But only when you stop the meeting Zoom will download an MP4 file.
Now that you have the video record file, you can then connect to the Checksub interface. By registering, you will have direct access to the upload interface of your video.
Select your content and indicate its original language. You can also choose between many languages to make the translation if needed.
To try the platform, you give 10 minutes of transcription for free. If this is not enough you can buy credits at a low price.
The API will then perform the speech recognition and provide you with the result in a few minutes.
When the result is ready, click on the language of your video to access the dedicated transcript editor.
You can use the editor to correct and adapt the result provided by speech recognition. To have a nice transcription, we advise you to cut the sequences by sentence. To do this, click on the parameter button, then "split my text by sequence".
The interface is also adapted to manage subtitling, this is explained later.
When you are sure of the result, you can finally download the file. There are many formats available such as TXT, SRT or VTT. We advise you to choose the .txt as it will only have the transcription and not the time sequence codes.
Once the TXT file obtained, here are some writing codes to make a readable and organized transcription:
You can follow the same steps described above. Simply, to record your meeting, you need to subscribe to a paid Google Meet offer.
Again, you can follow the same steps. However, instead of downloading a txt file, you can download a .srt or .vtt file that can be read by most video players. You can also upload your video with embedded subtitles, which is handy for easily sharing your content throughout your organization.
However, you will need to check the synchronization of your subtitles. Here are a few tips to optimize it:
That's it for us. We hope this will help you get the most of your meetings!
