YouTube now offers video transcripts in its Android app

Videos on TikTok are very short, but are getting longer and longer. You can now even TikTok for 10 minutes. YouTube does have shorts, but generally speaking, many YouTube videos are longer than 10 minutes these days. However, if you are looking for something in a video, it is useful to be able to search in the text. You will soon be able to do that, because you will soon find video transcriptions in the YouTube Android app.

Transcriptions on YouTube

Transcripts are, as it were, typed variants of what is said in a video. If you have a complete transcript of a video, you can easily search for a specific quote from someone. Transcripts within YouTube already work on the desktop: you only have to go to the three dots below the video and click on ‘Open transcript’.

On the right you can see what is being said. Good to know: it works especially well in English. In Dutch it sometimes happens that he is completely wrong. For example, Maan really sings in ‘No is Nee’: ‘Fuck you, what are you doing here?’ and not ‘flat on some cows gentlemen’.

Flat on some cows gentlemen

In short, unless you want to see it for fun, you’d better limit that transcription option to English-language videos (where they’re really not always perfect, but still). In the Android app it works about the same as in the browser, but then it is made a little more for mobile.

You can scroll through the full transcript and tap on a sentence to go directly there in the video. The only pity is that you cannot search for a word in the transcript, so you have to scroll through it yourself.

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Curious how it works? It may not be available on your Android device yet. It seems to be a server update.

Is it already possible with you? Leave it in the comments below this article.