To be fair, these automatic transcripts aren’t always fantastic, but if you want to get a written version of what was discussed in a video, the YouTube transcript can be an easy – and free! – starting place. It also helps YouTube properly categorize videos so that we see the best possible matches for a search on the hugely popular service. Why all these transcripts? To offer closed captioning for people who either need or prefer to have text to help understand what people are saying (or singing!) in the zillions of YouTube videos. The same technology that lets you click on the microphone icon and tell Google what you want it to search for is also used by YouTube to generate automatic transcripts of videos. Imagine how frustrating Alexa would be if it only had a 70% accuracy rating, for example! Fortunately, it’s way, way better than that. Used to be that any sort of transcription of audio content would be awful – remember the “transcribed” voice messages that Google Voice would send when someone left you a voicemail? Nowadays, between Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, TV remotes, and car infotainment systems, we have sophisticated voice analysis systems everywhere. Voice to text has come a long way in the last decade or two.
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