Why Transcripts are Important for YouTube Videos

Transcripts create a dozen more opportunities for your videos. The most fundamental reason is user experience.

With YouTube transcripts, you can create subtitles and captions for your YouTube videos. These provide more SEO benefits than paid ads because they bring in organic traffic.

Improving the User Experience

With transcripts, you can make your content accessible to a wider audience. This includes the deaf or hard of hearing and even people with vision impairment.

You can use the video transcript to generate subtitles and open captions. Subtitles boost the readability of your content, allowing anybody to go through your content and understand it better. This applies not just to the hard of hearing, but also to regular viewers.

With subtitles or captions, viewers don’t need to listen to the audio to hear what you’re saying. They can read the captions instead. This is especially useful for regular viewers who might be browsing social media in a noisy environment. With captions, they can easily watch without having to turn up the volume or fish out their headphones.

Subtitles are crucial for video content with a lot of dialogue, and voiceovers. So if you’re making podcasts or educational content, always be sure to generate subtitles.

Complying with Platform Requirements

Social media platforms always try to keep their content accessible to a wider audience. Some even have strict rules and guidelines for this purpose.

So adding an accurate transcript, along with multilingual subtitles is important. Some platforms might be trying to comply with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). So make sure your transcripts must meet these requirements for accessibility.

Translating to Multiple Languages

Another important component that goes hand in hand with accessibility is language barriers. With a transcript, you can generate multilingual subtitles and help bridge this gap.

In turn, users from around the world will tune in to your video content. Non-native speakers will have a chance to watch your content and easily understand what’s going on.

For you, this means a boost in traffic and engagement. Your content will have more likes, subscribers and shares.

For Education and Feedback

Transcripts help generate subtitles and captions but they also help students and viewers from other countries.

Transcripts help teachers and students learn your content. When you convert video to text, students can easily refer to what you’re saying. This can help students understand your content better and for teachers to do a good job of educating.

But it doesn’t end there, transcripts are also valuable to the original creator. The transcript can help you analyse how well you have structured your content and how well you stuck to the script. The transcript can help you gauge where user engagement dipped or boosted.

So this can help you plan out your next videos to be more engaging and user-friendly. With the transcript, you can see what went wrong and adjust accordingly.

Content Repurposing

One of the lesser-known benefits of generating a YouTube video transcript is content repurposing.

With a transcript, you can capture the main points of a video. This can allow you to reproduce it in different mediums like blog posts and TikToks.

So to branch out into short-form video content or blogs, you can use a transcript. AI clip makers can instantly convert your long-form videos into blog posts and TikToks with an accurate transcript.

Content repurposing is a great content marketing strategy. You can promote your original content without any extra effort. These AI tools, coupled with the transcript can do it all for you.

By the way, LiveLink’s clip maker AI can easily generate a transcript and create dozens of short-form content in one go. See how it compares to other video-to-text converters out there.

How Transcripts Can Improve Video SEO and Accessibility

Finally, another important benefit of transcriptions is SEO. Just like people, search engines and social media algorithms understand your content better with text.

With a proper transcript, you improve your chances of ranking on search queries. This applies even if you have subtitles and open captions.

So be sure to attach a transcript with subtitles to your videos. The transcript benefits the algorithm just as much as it helps the viewer.

Best Practices for Ensuring Transcript Accuracy and Readability

Generating a transcript is hard work. Even the best transcribers and AI tools can make mistakes. Most of them can even miss the entire point of transcription and fail to give the results you expect.

So to prevent this, you need to find the right tools for the job. If your content covers more complex topics and technical jargon, it’s better to review the transcripts manually. You can also get help from a professional.

That said, if your topics are somewhat loose and include everyday English, you can get by with an AI tool.

Besides this, some other things you need to consider when creating accurate transcripts are:

• Clean Up the Audio: Use post-production techniques to normalise audio and reduce background noise. These can help human transcribers and AI tools do a better job and reduce mistakes.
• Use High-End Audio Recording Equipment: Cleaning up audio in post can only get you so far. So make sure your original audio is clean and high-quality to begin with. Invest in high-quality gear and plan your setup to minimise background noise.
• Plan Out Your Content: This applies to podcasts and other scripted pieces of content. Make sure dialogue and voice lines are clear and spaced apart.
• Instruct Your Hosts and Speakers: Also, you want to instruct your actors or guests to speak clearly. Inform them to avoid talking over each other as much as possible and speak at a steady pace.
• Review the Transcript: AI tools can make mistakes. So be sure to review the transcript before publishing. Especially go over sections where the audio is choppy or the dialogue includes heavy accents or technical terms.****

How LiveLink Simplifies the Transcription Process

LiveLink is a great tool for generating transcripts from your original videos. LiveLink takes care of the transcription process and goes the extra mile to streamline the process and make it beginner-friendly.

With LiveLink, you only have to upload the original video file. The AI transcription tool automatically creates a transcript for you. You can then download the transcript separately or even download short-form content with the transcript included.

But that’s not all, LiveLink also helps you with things like:

• Adding automatic captions
• Customising the auto-generated captions
• Auto-clipping videos into TikTok-style short clips
• Generating hashtag recommendations
• Suggesting title and description