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hi everyone kevin here today i want to
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show you how you can convert audio into
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text
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we're going to use an app that comes
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with windows 10 and we're going to
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combine that with a virtual audio cable
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if that sounds confusing don't worry
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we're going to walk through all of this
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step by step
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this works with all major languages it's
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free and there are no time limits at all
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all right let's jump on the pc not
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literally and let's see how we can do
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this to convert audio into text i
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mentioned that we're going to use two
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separate tools and the good news is you
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already have one of these tools it comes
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for free with windows 10 and it's called
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the dictation tool
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if you've never used it before you can
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launch it by pressing the windows logo
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key on your keyboard together with the h
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key h as in hotel this opens up the
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dictation tool on the top of the screen
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and to have it start listening simply
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click on the microphone icon
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testing testing one two three testing
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testing one two three
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once you're done simply click on the
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microphone icon again and then it'll
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stop listening and here you see all the
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text that i said it transcribes all of
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this text for me
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the dictation tool works really well
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when i feed in live audio so i talk
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right now it transcribes it and it gives
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me the result but what if i want to
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let's say take a video file or maybe i
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want to take a pre-recorded audio file
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and i want to transcribe that well we
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need to get another tool called a
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virtual audio cable and for that let's
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open up our web browser the second tool
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that we're going to get is called a
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virtual audio cable and my favorite one
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is made by a company called vb audio
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software
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you can download it at the following
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website and it's completely free to
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download this will allow us to take the
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output from an app like say a video
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player or maybe you're listening to a
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podcast it'll allow you to take any type
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of sound output and we'll be able to use
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this to feed it into the dictation tool
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on this page click on the download link
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and run through the installation process
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once you finish installing next we need
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to set up our computer so it uses the
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new virtual audio cable
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down on the taskbar in the search field
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type in sound and then click on the best
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match for sound settings this opens up
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sound settings and here we need to
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modify two different settings up on top
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we can choose our output device and
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currently i have it set to my computer
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speakers
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select this drop down list and switch it
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over to cable input this is going to
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send the output into our virtual cable
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down below we can also choose our input
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device and this is typically your
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microphone
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here click on the drop down list and
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here let's switch it to the cable output
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by doing this once again it's going to
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take the output from say a video player
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a podcast a sound recording and it's
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going to take that output and it's going
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to feed it into the input or basically
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feed it into our microphone
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once we finish the transcription or once
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we convert our audio into text you can
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come back into sound settings and you
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can restore it back to the default for
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now we're all done making changes so we
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can close this window out now that we
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have everything configured we are ready
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to convert audio into text i opened up
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my web browser and i navigated to my
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favorite youtuber kevin stratford i want
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to take the talk track from this video
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and i want to turn it into a transcript
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once again i want to open up windows
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dictation i'll press the windows logo
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key together with h h as in hotel
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over here i'll click on play on the
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video next i'll click into notepad so
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that's currently the active text field
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and then i'll click on the microphone
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icon
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here now the dictation tool is listening
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to the video and it's turning the talk
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track into text look at that and that is
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pretty cool
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now all in all it'll do a pretty decent
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job it might miss some punctuation here
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and there and a few of the words might
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be a little bit off but it's very
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readable and i can easily understand it
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here you see that it's currently
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catching up with what i'm saying i guess
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i'm kind of a fast speaker but here you
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see it turn it into a transcript now i
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could go and play this entire video and
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i'd have a transcript of everything that
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i said once i'm all done i'll go up and
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click on the microphone and that'll stop
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the windows dictation tool alright well
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let me know down below in the comments
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were you able to successfully transcribe
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a file
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if you enjoyed this video and you'd like
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to see future videos like this please
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consider subscribing alright well that's
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all i have for you today i hope you
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enjoyed and as always i hope to see you
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next time bye
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