in this video I'll look at the best transcription software important factors are accuracy cost one of them in this video is Free by the way and speed of transcription let's dive in okay now each piece of software that I'm going to use for transcription in this video does a slightly different thing so you decide what you need for your use case the first one is called whisper transcribe and I recently had a chat with a developer super nice guy who's adding loads of features in and I'm really excited see where this goes now under the hood it's using open ai's whisper API it's one of the most accurate transcription tools out there on the internet right now so I think it's going to be rather good so here it is you've got a nice clean interface and the way it works is you simply buy credits you can use my link down below to get some nice credits and get started to try this out now of course you can upload a file you can click and record audio straight away or the coolest thing is you can search for podcasts from a library so you could type in any of your favorite podcasts for instance like so search for that podcast and boom there is the show that I'd like to transcribe using this software now it'll find 40 episodes but you can of course load more in until you get all the episodes in there and then you can search for a specific uh guest that was on like that and boom you can transcribe that episode and get it for you within seconds there's also the chance to add YouTube links as well if you want to transcribe YouTube videos and I've actually tried this on my own YouTube video it's really rather good very very accurate as you'd expect if it's using open AI whisper API you can download srts you can get VT files as well and this is really cool you can generate AI content this is something that I really like you can use a suggested prompt like for instance create a title for this YouTube video or give me a promotional LinkedIn post or some podcast show notes or a promotional Twitter thread so let's try that one it gives the prompt all you got to do is Click generate and boom there it is you a content creator looking to boost your YouTube clickthrough rates and it goes on something I can easily put into my Twitter feed and quite accurate based on the YouTube video I made next we're going to look at one of my old favorites called Sonics a link to this will be in the description and it's really good if you're doing multilanguage transcriptions and Sonics support just about every language I can imagine they also support multiple speakers and files from all different sources from from video through to audio I uploaded a couple of translated audio files of my video recordings so I spoke in French it transcribed me into beautiful French here and it will also sync up with the content mik so as you can see it's highlighting each word as I say something now I've got a bunch of tools here I can highlight things I can show confidence so if there's anything it's not sure about it's going to highlight it here of course it did get being Vue right that's of course well welcome to the tutorial uh so anything that needs correcting can potentially be highlighted there I can change the playback speed I can embed this in my website so it's great for embedding podcasts and video tutorials can share it with people and also I think it's got about the most export options as well as having a huge amount of language options you can export in so many different formats from well traditional Word documents to PDF files subtitle files research audio and video editors and even underlying media as well so if you need a bunch of options and good accuracy with highlights on Words it's not sure about Sonic could well be the way for you to go next I'm going to talk about a mobile first app that sits in my pocket all the time and I use this one to be super productive it will take meeting notes whether I'm online or if I'm in person having a meeting with someone this has been a life changer for me when I've needed to record thoughts and ideas from conversational meetings I have it's called otter Ai and I wanted to show you here just how it works by tapping the microphone and now I can speak to you and you will see as I'm speaking to you it is transcribing exactly what I'm saying onto the screen in real time it's pretty epic I love this and it will give me so much more than just a meeting transcript I can talk with this meeting later what is really insane is this app's free plan is really generous it includes 300 free minutes every single month and you can record meetings of up to 30 minutes in length before you need to pay any money let's take a little look at the web interface as well and you'll see here it's got all your meeting notes nicely saved so when I'm talking about trying to work on a video that's a little meeting I'll have with myself and transcribe or I was talking with Isabella the other day about social media strategy and you can see everything is nicely transcribed here but what I think is the killer feature and this is available even on the free plan is you can have a chat with your voice meeting that's been transcribed so you just tag at otter and then you ask it a question what were identified as good social media strategies and there we go right down here it tells exactly what was discussed in the meeting which is incredible I can tag it again now and say otter uh what platforms should I focus on there we go based on the discussion it's saying LinkedIn for news updates Twitter for quickly sharing info Facebook for events and Instagram for visually appealing and this is exactly what I was chatting to Isabella about in our voice face-to-face meeting so it's incredibly cool you can ask quite a few questions to the otter AI before it says you need a paid plan so really the free plan is pretty awesome pretty generous and great if you want to be productive in any kind of voice meeting next up is one of my favorite content creation platforms Riverside go check them out in the link down below and of course I record my podcast regularly inside Riverside so you'll see here in the recordings I've got some episodes let's go to the latest episode here and then I can look at the transcription in the editor so as I go into the editor it supports 100 plus languages so not only English but also the other languages that were featured in this multilingual show as well now what you'll see here is it gives you a very very accurate transcript like I say in 100 plus languages but it's also claimed to be 99% accurate so you can do text based editing in here so if I wanted to I could actually go ahead and highlight a certain amount of this text and just simply hit the delete key on my keyboard and boom that is actually cut out of my timeline here in my video podcast which is insane I can undo by as you'd expect hitting command or contrl Z boom and it's back to normal and if I want to correct that's also a feature that's just been made available inside Riverside so Isabella is spelled incorrectly here I can click correct on this and I can type in Isabella with with a z she'll really appreciate that correct and boom that is now updated but also if I scroll down I can actually go ahead and download the transcript as either an SRT subtitles file for places like YouTube or a txt file if I want to upload it for instance to AI to have it analyzed and write some podcast show notes finally if I need a good and reliable transcription I'm an Adobe Creative Cloud member so I'll use Premier Pro now one of the good things about this is well it's not free you need pay for Adobe software but if you're using the software already yes you have free transcription baked right into it a really cool thing is there's no going to the cloud of any of your data this is done locally on your machine so if you're sensitive about sharing certain data you can do it all locally inside Premier Pro so here you'll see I've got the basic interface of Premier Pro it's a video editor by the way in case you didn't know and then I can change the workspace up here in the top right and go to captions and Graphics now you see I've got no files I'm going to drag and drop a wave file an audio file here and I'm going to drop it into my media bin here this is test double click it and you'll see the waveform but if I go to the text box here look at that it already transcribed it's like Lightning Fast you'll see this is simply a test to see how well transcription Works in Adobe premere Pro you can also do text based editing by selecting and hitting the space bar this is simply a test to see how well transcription Works in Adobe premere Pro now if I want to do text based editing with this I can and drop it onto my timeline here and you'll see that I've got this here that appears now I can just select everything and delete in Adobe premere Pro and have another listen see how well transcription Works how cool is this and in Adobe premere Pro has completely gone from my transcript there so there we go modern fast cheap and efficient you can transcribe in seconds using much of the transcription software that I've mentioned in this video each one has a slightly different use case so pick the one that best matches your needs and by the way if you use any of the links down below some of them are affiliate links so you do support the channel by clicking them and testing the software out for yourself