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How to transcribe videos in EchoVideo
A guide for correcting transcripts and applying as closed captions.
General reminders
Echo360 provides an interactive transcript for each video shared to a course. These are what our team edits and then applies as closed captioning to videos.
Usually for every hour of content you are asked to verify transcripts and apply closed captions, it should take between 4 and 5 hours to confirm depending on initial accuracy of Echo360 transcript.
Always check for correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation in the transcript. Inaccuracies can affect meaning for learners who rely upon transcripts and closed captioning.
If there is a scientific term of which you are unsure, please reach out. In your review of transcripts, be on the lookout for drug names or complex scientific names as the ASR often does not get those quite right. See the following example: Echo360 might mark “carry out cells” as correct, but the speaker actually said “eukaryotic cells”.
Be sure to change speakers appropriately. Echo360 flags different speakers in a video as “speaker 0”, “speaker 1”, etc. You will want to rename those to the speaker’s name. See this article from Echo360 on adding and identifying speakers for transcripts.
Transcription Tutorial
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Final checklist
For each video you transcribe, go through the final list before finalizing your work for each video that you transcribe.
- Ensure you have read along through the transcript as you are viewing—do not simply rely on the confidence indicator telling you if something is right or wrong.
- Reach out about scientific/medical terminology about which you are unsure.
- Always check grammar, spelling, and punctuation and correct as needed.
- Change speakers in the transcript to represent those who are speaking in the videos.
- Apply your finalized transcript as closed captions.
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