Video Transcription for Bloggers

Content for Vidblogs

Video blogging is a popular way for bloggers to get their thoughts and ideas across to blog visitors. We all enjoy watching a movie. Search engines however don’t feel the same way about vidblogs as people – how do they find the information contained in the video.

One way to overcome this limitation is to include a transcription of the video in the vidblog post. This is precisely what I recently did for a client. The video below was transcribed ‘intelligent verbatim‘ in other words it was cleaned up; pauses for thoughts, filler expressions such as uh, um, kind of etc. edited out. The idea of intelligent verbatim transcription being to produce a readable result from the spoken word.

A Vidblog Transcription Example

The video below is used as an example of the effectiveness of video transcription for bloggers. The original post contained only a single line of text content ”