
Transcripts are separate from the video, often appearing on the side or below a video player.



Transcription is writing down text that captures all of the speech in a video. Creating transcripts and subtitles starts with transcription. What are transcripts and how are they different from subtitles and how can they be used? Let’s start with what they have in common, discuss the differences, and see how easy it is to convert YouTube captions to text files.
