Video transcripts are excellent for aiding those with disabilities, but they’re also helpful for quickly analyzing a video for a specific data point. Google Drive’s newest update lets you search through transcripts to find the exact spot you’re looking for.
Google Drive’s New Transcript Search Makes Finding Moments Easy
In a post on the Google Workspace Updates blog, the company announces a new tool for searching through a video’s transcript. If you click the cog icon on the video player and then click “Transcript,” a new sidebar will pop open, showing you everything said in the video. It will highlight the current timestamp to help you follow along more easily and will let you search within the transcript for a specific term.
The good news is that this should work with every video, regardless of if you manually added a transcription. That’s because Google Drive lets you automatically generate captions by right-clicking a video and accessing the caption options. As such, if you’re having issues following a video or just want to find a specific spot without clicking around the video timeline, you can generate a transcript and find what you’re looking for via the new search tool.
Google says this feature is available “to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts” and will begin rolling out to everyone starting today. If you don’t see it immediately, don’t fret; give it a few days for Google to get the feature to your account.
This transcription browsing tool is an excellent example of how powerful Google Drive can be. People often assume it’s just a cloud storage service and nothing more, but in truth, there are plenty of Google Drive tips and tricks you can do to get the most out of this handy suite.
