How to Transcribe and Translate Audio or Video to Any Language Using AI
Summary
TLDRThe video demonstrates using two AI tools, Descript and DeepL, to easily transcribe and translate video and audio files. Descript provides automated transcription and editing capabilities, exporting transcripts and captions. DeepL then instantly translates the English transcript into over 30 languages. Together these tools enable creating accessible, multilingual content and subtitles to reach broader audiences. The value and accessibility of AI is highlighted, mentioning a website cataloguing AI courses and tutorials on platforms like ChatGPT and Midjourney for those wanting to further leverage AI.
Takeaways
- 😀 The video demonstrates how to use Descript and DeepL to transcribe and translate video and audio files
- 📹 Descript provides accurate AI-powered transcription of video and audio files
- 📝 Descript transcripts can be edited and exported to various formats like Word docs
- 🌎 DeepL translates transcripts and captions to over 30 languages quickly
- 🇪🇸 Translated files can be saved as SRT/VTT captions for subtitling videos
- 🔭 Analytics can identify top visitor countries to translate captions accordingly
- 🚀 Skill Leap AI has a catalog of 200+ AI tutorials including ChatGPT prompts
- ⏱ Using Descript and DeepL saves money and time on transcription/translation
- 💡 Integrating the two tools makes content accessible to more people globally
- 🎥 The workflow enables creating multi-language versions of videos easily
Q & A
What two AI tools does the narrator use to transcribe and translate video and audio files?
-The narrator uses Descript for transcription and deepl.com translator for translation.
What file formats can you export the transcript to from Descript?
-From Descript you can export the transcript to plain text, Microsoft Word doc, SRT captions file, and VTT captions file.
How accurate is the AI transcription in Descript?
-The narrator says the AI transcription in Descript is incredibly accurate after testing it on 12 hours of video.
What languages can you translate to with deepl.com translator?
-Deepl.com translator supports over 30 languages including Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese and Italian.
How can translated caption files be used?
-The translated caption files can be used to add subtitles in different languages to videos on YouTube or on the narrator's own platform.
How can you use Google Analytics with translated captions?
-Google Analytics shows the top visitor countries. Captions can be translated to the top 10 languages to make the platform accessible globally.
What website does the narrator mention that has AI courses?
-The website is skillleap.ai which has hundreds of tutorials on AI tools like ChatGPT and content creation platforms.
What editing can you do to transcripts in Descript?
-In Descript you can highlight text to correct errors and also add punctuation. Edits to transcripts propagate to associated video/audio.
What is the benefit of the AI voice overdub feature in Descript?
-The voice overdub feature lets you train the AI with your own voice so it can overdub parts of the audio that have mistakes.
What is the limitation on translating long text with the free version of deepl.com?
-The free version of deepl.com has a character limit per translation. For long text files an upgraded account is recommended.
Outlines
😀 Transcribing and Translating Videos with AI
The first paragraph introduces two AI tools for transcribing and translating video and audio files to save time and money. It focuses on Descript, an AI-powered transcription tool that can also edit transcripts to alter videos and audio. The transcript is exported to make edits in Word and generate caption files for subtitles.
😃 Translating to Multiple Languages
The second paragraph shows how to use the DeepL translator to quickly translate the English transcript into over 30 languages like Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. Translated caption files can then provide subtitles in different languages based on website visitor locations tracked in Google Analytics.
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Keywords
💡transcription
💡translation
💡editing
💡export
💡accessibility
💡automation
💡accuracy
💡workflows
💡cost saving
💡multilinguality
Highlights
Uses Descript to transcribe audio and video files automatically with AI
Descript allows editing transcripts to correct any mistakes
Exports transcripts to Word docs, subtitles, captions
Uses DeepL to translate transcripts instantly into over 30 languages
DeepL translations are incredibly fast, just a few seconds
Can create translated subtitles/captions for videos
Translations allow reaching wider international audiences
Skill Leap AI provides many AI tutorials and courses
Descript has tons of advanced audio/video editing features
Fixes to transcripts propagate to associated video/audio
Large volumes of content can be processed
Analytics show top visitor countries to focus translations
Creates accessible, multi-language platforms
Saves money compared to human translation services
Saves time compared to manual transcription
Transcripts
with the power of two different AI tools
that I want to share with you in this
video I was able to transcribe and
translate most of my video files right
now and also my audio files too I want
to show you my exact workflow it will
save you ton of money and ton of time so
the first one is for transcription and
they have ton of free minutes that you
could use this is called descript I'll
go ahead and Link it on screen and Below
but this option basically does a lot
more than transcribing I'm only gonna
show you just a brief transcription
version and then we'll use the
translation AI tool after this one so
once you get dscript installed all I
have to do is click on new project here
and here I chose the video option but
you could choose the audio option so now
all I have to do is take my file from my
computer and drop it right here so
here's a file so I'm gonna grab it right
here and I'm gonna drag and drop it
right here and usually takes just a few
seconds this is a two minute video file
and right here I'm gonna go ahead and
choose my name one option this has is it
basically lets you do this AI voice
overdub so you could train it with your
own voice and overdub any part of it
where you make a mistake again I'm not
going to show you that in this video but
dscript has ton of options like that
including editing a text file which
edits then the video file too and the
audio file then over here you could
transcribe this to ton of different
languages so it will translate and
transcribe but I'm going to show you a
tool for that part in a second right now
I'm just going to choose English for the
English transcription this is in English
the video and as you can see over here
is the entire text I'm going to put it
on mute here but basically if I just
press play it's going to follow along
with the video word by word and it is
incredibly accurate this is not done by
any humans right now this is just Ai and
as I've been watching this I've done it
with close to 12 hours worth of videos
just in the last week okay but all I
have to do is if I wanna correct
something I just highlighted and then
the correct option here is right here
and I'm going to I'm just going to
select that and press enter and it's
going to change that for me so I could
quickly go ahead and change anything
that I see as I go through it so right
here I could add a period here and I
could go ahead and capitalize this again
real quickly I could make changes and
then it's going to follow along with
everything I'm saying as I go through
this whole process okay now I'm going to
go to publish here and I'm going to go
to export I could actually export the
video or audio file if I alter this in
any way so if I edited sections out it's
going to let me just edit the fixed
version of the video or audio but here I
just want the transcript and I have lots
of different file formats just plain
text or Microsoft doc here I'm just
going to use the Microsoft Word doc here
and I'm going to save this file and then
if I want the caption file this lets you
download the SRT file or the vtt file
this is how I subtitled my video so I
usually go ahead and Export one of those
as well I could use those on YouTube for
example or on my own platform for a
caption subtitle file in addition to the
transcript now let me go ahead and open
the transfer script I'll go to edit over
here and select all and then I'll go
ahead and right click over here and copy
everything now here's the second
platform that I'm going to show you for
the translation portion so all you have
to do is go to deepl.com translator and
they do have a lot of free credits here
as well but I did get the upgraded
version because I usually have much
longer text files that I'm going to
import here they do have a limit on how
much you could do at one time if you
want to keep using it for free you will
hit that limit so I'm gonna paste over
here and this is my English detected and
did you see over here the Spanish
version just appeared just like that I
got the Spanish version it took not even
one second for this to translate from
English to Spanish
and here's the most interesting part I
could select this option and I could
click any other language I believe they
have over 30 right now and look at this
just like this two seconds later I got
the Chinese version
if I want the Portuguese version two
seconds later I got the Portuguese
version all these I could go ahead and
press command or control a to select I
could go ahead and right click and copy
and then I could save it in the word doc
or any type of format that I want to
save it as I could also translate files
from PDFs docs and PowerPoint but I
could also do this with my caption file
if I copy and paste that caption file I
downloaded from the script this is
English this is Portuguese or if I want
Japanese or Italian here's Japanese for
example is going to take this and turn
it into this type of format if I save
this as a plain text
and then add dot SRT or dot vtt at the
end of the file type I got myself a
whole different language so on my
website when I do this you could go over
and press the subtitle option now you
have English Portuguese Spanish Chinese
then I could use a free platform like
Google analytics to see where my
visitors are coming from all the
different countries are listed here I
could take the top ten I could use deep
ell I could do the caption file that way
I could do the transcription that way
and then I could basically make my
platform accessible to a whole lot more
people and the platform that I mentioned
that I'm using this for this website
skill leap AI is basically an entire
catalog of AI courses and content so you
could learn everything in the world of
AI including how to use chat GPT
correctly with hundreds and hundreds of
prompts included ton of different
tutorials on content creation platforms
like mid-journey Runway Adobe there are
nearly 200 tutorials if you're
interested I'll put a link in the
description so you can learn more I hope
you found this video useful and I'll see
you next time
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