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How to get a transcript for a YouTube video


YouTube videos come with handy, if inaccurate, transcripts.

But when I do a search for guidance on, say, a difficult crochet stitch, it often helps to have a blow-by-blow text explanation that I can have handy without having to sit and watch a video over and over again. For example, if you don’t have the time or patience to sit through an entire video, then you can simply glance through the transcript to get the gist of the subject and save it for future reference. I compared the two, and while the accuracy of the text was approximately the same, Recorder adds actual sentence structure — you know, periods and capital letters and such — making it far easier to read.

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