Google Drive It is not one of the most commented products of Googlebut also periodically receives novelties that can be of interest to many users. For example, since last year, Google’s cloud storage service allows generate subtitles in videos stored in Drive. This improves its accessibility, now increased with another new feature that another Google platform, YouTubeit has since 2009. Then implemented on the video platform a Voice recognition technology that generated subtitles for videos automatically and also a transcription that was shown independently, in another modulefirst in English and then expanded to other languages. Despite the years elapsed, It is an option that is not always available For users On YouTubesince it depends on the creator of content to activate it in their videos.
This function of generating subtitles He arrived at Google Drive last year and has now improved by adding the transcriptionwith the added characteristic that it incorporates Search capacityso that the user can search for concrete terms to locate the part that really interests him in a video. The advantage against the transcription offered by YouTube is that here the user can Enable it in all the videos you want, since he is the owner of the account and only needs the video to be uploaded to it. Thus, for example, any YouTube video or other source that the user has stored on Google Drive, may Generate the subtitles and transcripts of the same.
These are presented very similar to how they do it on YouTube. If available, they will appear In a sidebar next to the video block video with time brandshighlighting each block as it is pronounced in the video that is visualizing.
The transcription search bar is located at the top of said sidebar, and By clicking specific text blocks, you will be taken to that video time. You can see the transcripts by clicking on the configuration icon at the bottom of the video and then selecting Transcription.
The transcription option is only available If the video already has subtitlesas indicated with the button DC which appears in the lower part of the Google Drive video player. If a video does not have subtitles, the user can create them right clicking on the video file in Drive, selecting Subtitle clues And then Generate automatic subtitles.
The company has announced that its Global deploymentwhich will extend until next March 26date on which all Google Workspace users will have enabled this feature in their drive.