Google Drive gets searchable video transcripts

Google has announced caller searchable transcripts for videos you shop successful Google Drive. The characteristic is rolling retired to each Google Workspace users, starting coming and finishing by March 26th.

The transcripts look a batch for illustration those you’d spot connected YouTube. If 1 is available, it’ll look successful a sidebar adjacent to the video arsenic blocks of timestamped text, pinch each artifact highlighted arsenic it’s spoken successful the video you’re watching. The hunt barroom for the transcript sits astatine the apical of this sidebar, and clicking connected circumstantial matter blocks will return you to that infinitesimal successful the video. You tin spot the transcripts by clicking the settings icon astatine the bottommost of the video and past choosing “Transcript.”

The transcript action is only disposable if the video already has captions, arsenic indicated by the CC fastener that shows up successful the controls on the bottommost of the Google Drive video player. If a video doesn’t person captions, you tin create them by right-clicking a video record successful Drive, choosing “Manage caption tracks,” and past “generate automatic captions.”