Hello everyone and welcome to my channel Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you how to make money online working from home. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel by clicking on the subscribe button below if you're interested in learning dozens of genuine and authentic ways to make money online. So a major theme of my channel is everything to do making money as a transcriptionist or a captioner. I like to provide you as well with tools and tricks to become a faster and more
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accurate transcriptionist. So you can transcribe
faster and make money faster as well. In today's
video, I'll go over three tools that you can use to make transcribing easier two of these I have never shown you before on this channel. may also be interested in checking out my on transcription tools, including a four step video on transcription made easy, a video on how to use Google Docs to easily
transcribe speech to text, and my tutorial on
learning how to type faster. I'll put the links
to these three tutorials in the description
below. So let's get into today's tutorial.
First, I'll teach you how to use a free Find and
Replace function in case you spell a certain word
or name inconsistently throughout a script.
For example, let's say you transcribed a 2000
word transcript, and you've spelt the company
name wrong throughout the entire transcript.
Instead of having to go back and
correct each and every company name,
this function will do it for you within seconds.
Next, we'll throw our sample transcript into the
free version of Grammarly to fix all our errors
and leave us with a nice polished transcript.
But then I'm going to teach you how to use title
case converter to get perfect capitalization of
titles even after we've used Grammarly. A lot of
times Grammarly doesn't pick up that a series of
words should be a title and should be capitalized
a certain way. Learning how to capitalize titles
perfectly can be a bit overwhelming. And this
comes up a lot in transcription. This tool is
a foolproof way to transcribe every title
perfectly. I'll also link you to my guide on
rules on my Sparkle English
channel in the description below as well.
But this tool is awesome. So I'm excited
to show you it. So let's get started.
Okay, so I have here a little transcript. It's
full of different errors because I'm going to
be correcting them later on. I've done that
intentionally. But the first step to this is
using the Find and Replace function. So let's say
I've written out this transcript and I've realized
that I've spelt the word or the name Sean
wrong. I spelt it SEAN. But let's say I
found out that the version that I should have
been spelling it was SHAWN and also the name
Sara. I put Sara and let's say it should have
been Sarah. So what I'm going to do is highlight
and select everything in my text and go Ctrl C to
copy or you can right click and click Copy. And
then I'm going to open up something called notepad
plus plus. Now any Windows laptop or computer has
Notepad. But I prefer notepad plus plus I just
think it's a better text editor. So if you go to
notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads, you can go
ahead and just download the latest version,
I already have the latest version downloaded.
So I'm just going to go ahead and open it up.
And that will bring you into this here and it's a
little bit of a more advanced text editor. Now I'm
going to right click and select Paste. And that
will paste my entire transcript into this text
editor. Now, you can't really see it very well
like this. So what we want to do is go to view
and select word wrap. So once that is on, it
doesn't matter what you do with this window,
you can go like this, or like this, and it will
make it so that you can see everything on the
screen without having to scroll sideways. Okay,
so the first thing I want to do is replace all
the name Sean, S-E-A-N, and replace that with the
correct spelling, which is SHAWN, for example. You might also need this function, if you just did a three page transcript and you transcribed the name wrong of a company or anything like that. Okay, so I'm going to go to search and then go to replace.Okayso what I want to do is I want to search for everything, every word that says Shawn, and we're going to replace it with SHAWN and because it's a name, of course we want to capitalize it. So anything that is Shawn, we're going to put as Shawn, you can click Replace All or you can go find next and you can see here it's highlighting thatthat I have, and then I'm going to put replace all. Okay, so let's go find next says can't find the text, Sean. So that has just replaced every instance of Shawn, like this. Let's say for example, I really should have put uncle capitalized. So I'm going to put uncle like this with lower case youto capitalize it because it should be capitalized. Again, I'm going to go replace all.And you can see here it's replaced Uncle Shawn with a capital U and again here with a capital U. next one we have to do is Sarah. So we're going to find everything that says Sarah,spelt like that with a capital SARAH. I like going to find next because that way, it highlights them. And I just like to see that highlighted. So I clicked Find Next. And again, you can do replace if you want to do one at a time, or replace all. So as you can see, it has now replaced everything like that.So this is a quick way that you can replace any word that you spelled wrong or incorrectly.And this is really useful if for example, even here, you know, I intentionally put I like that lowercase it should be a capital I could do that to replace it.
This is another little cool feature. If you want
to find another word, the multiples of a word in
here, you can just click on it. So if I want to
put Christmas, I can highlight the word Christmas
and you will see it will pop up every other
word in the transcript that has that. So this
is great. And now we can click Ctrl A to select
everything and then Ctrl C to copy or edit copy.
And now we'll bring it into
Grammarly for the next step.
So I'm going to erase this because
this was our original transcript.
And going to go Ctrl plus V
to paste it. So now and again, I'm going to
put the link to Grammarly the free version
of Grammarly in the description below. And we're
going to go through this and just click on all the
red errors here to correct it. So mine should be
capitalized. Christmas should be capitalized. I...
boom. Okay, so now we're done. And you might think
okay, this looks great. Let me read it for you.
My favorite time of year is Christmas. I like to
watch Home Alone with my parents and siblings.
My brother's favorite movie is Jingle all the Way.
for the first and important words, such as The
Lord of the Rings, or Cooking Light. Do not use
quotations or italics for titles. Well, they say
first and important words, but that's kind of,
you know, not really explaining to you how to
capitalize a title. There's a whole bunch of
different rules for that, which I've linked to my
capitalization rules video on my Sparkle English
channel in the description below. But let's say
you don't have time to memorize all those rules,
its cool
or you find it really complicated. How do you
capitalize titles quickly and easily, foolproof
way? Well, I came across this website, which is
awesome. And I'm going to show you it right here.
This is called titlecaseconverter.com. It's a free
website. It's a smart title capitalization tool.
I absolutely love it. So if you have the title
of a book or movie or something and you're not
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sure how to properly capitalize it, you're going
to type in the title and first type it all in with
lowercase letters. So for example, The Lord of the
Rings. All you have to do now is click Convert.
And you can see here it has converted it
into the APA format, The Lord of the Rings.
And then if you highlight over
the word it will tell you why.
One word was capitalized and one
word wasn't. That is capitalized.
Because it is the first word of the title.
Lord is capitalized because it is neither
an article coordinating conjunction nor a
preposition with fewer than four letters.
So words that are an article, a coordinating
conjunction, or preposition with fewer than
jkgfour jklletters are not capitalized in a title. And
if that gets confusing to you for which word is or
gjjgkljglisn't, this tool will help you do it instantly
for you so you don't need to worry about it.
jlgljgklj
Have is not capitalized because it is a
preposition that is not capitalized because
jllglglj
it is an article rings is capitalized because it
is the last word of the title or subtitle. Okay,
ljgkjgkjlg
so, sticking with the APA format, the Associated
Press style book format, is fine. I wouldn't worry
gjlglg
about it. You can also click on show explanations
if you want to see all the explanations for why a
gjkljkljlkword is or isn't capitalized. can also click on
highlight changes you can see the changes made
jgkljgland I think this format is good to stick with
because this is exactly how you know it is done in
jgllgthe movies and also how they have it capitalized
here in the transcribe me style guide. So sticking
jgklkjgl
with this format is perfectly fine. The other
example they had was Cooking Light. Let's go
jkglgjl
here type in Cooking Light, convert... You can
see cooking is capitalized because it's the first
jkljg
word of the title light is capitalized because
it is the last word of the title or subtitle.
jl
So now we go back to our Grammarly transcript.
And we've got home alone. Well, let's highlight
lthat. Let's say I don't know how to what
I'm going to do for this. Put in convert,
l
boom, we're going to capitalize
both Okay, so you can click Copy,
l
go olver here, highlight it, right click paste to
replace it, and we're good. The next one Jingle
lall the Way. Okay, that's the name of a movie
with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I love that movie,
ycopy, go over to the title case converter. We're
going to paste it we're going to go convert.
y
Okay, we're going to capitalize all the words
except for the because it is an article,
y
we had the capitalized in The Lord of the
Rings because the was the first word of the
f
title. But in this case, it's in the middle. And
because it's an article, we do not capitalize it.
f
Again, click Copy. Go back to Grammarly.
Highlight Jingle all the Way. Right click,
f
paste, boom, we're good. Then the last one
I prefer to watch It's a Wonderful Life,
f
we'ref gonna highlight It's a Wonderful Life.
Right click Copy, title case converter,
f
paste, convert. Good, it's going to
capitalize everything except for AP
f
because it's not capitalized because
it is an article. Again, click Copy.
Paste that right over here.
fBoom, and we're done. And we're finished.
Okay, and now we have a perfect transcript.
ySo from here, the only thing I'm seeing here
that they missed is we have to capitalize
d
he. I'm not sure why that's why that
hasn't been caught with Grammarly.
dBut we're going to.. Well, if we put it on a new
line, now they're telling us to capitalize it.
dSo now we have a perfect transcript. And we're
ready to copy and paste this into whatever
d
transcription platform we're using. Remember,
if you've seen my video on oTranscribe that
d
you have to strip the formatting before
you go ahead and paste it into something,
into whatever transcription platform you're using.
So for example, you can go back into notepad
and then right click paste, and then copy. And
then you're ready to paste it into whatever
transcription platform you're using, so
that it is free of any weird formatting
and it will match the formatting of the
transcription platform you're using.
So thank you very much for watching this tutorial.
These are a couple different tips and tricks that
I have learned that I really wanted to show
you just so it can make it easier for you to
understand how to capitalize a title and also how
to search and replace for different words. So you
don't have to go through an entire transcript
to make edits across the whole transcript to
change a name or something like that. So if you
liked this video, please click like, make sure to
subscribe to my channel, both this channel
and my Sparkle English channel, to improve
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