Through a Zoom or Google Meet videoconference, meetings are not only held to exchange opinions. Didactic material is also shared through virtual classes or seminars that are well worth keeping, since they can be consulted at a later time, especially those parts of the event in which due attention was not paid or absent.
One possibility is to record the video conference as a video file and open it in any media player, but locating its most interesting segments requires additional work and consumes more resources on our PC.
Another option is to transcribe this video file. That is, extracting your audio and converting it to text format, which involves uploading the file to an online transcription service and then downloading it as a text file, but has the drawback that most dedicated online services This activity imposes limitations on the duration of the videos, unless a paid plan is purchased.
However, there is another possibility that is somewhat more effective than the previous ones, since in addition to taking less time and effort, it does so in real time. This is Tactiq.
Real-time video conference transcription with Tactiq
Tactiq a real-time video transcription service that works from the Chrome or Edge browser in the form of a very light and easy to install extension.
What Tactiq does once installed is detect any new Google Meet or Zoom meeting that takes place through their web versions. From there, it is installed as a widget on the meeting screen and transcribes everything heard through the videoconference, perfectly identifying each participant.
It even has the ability to automatically translate the transcript into a selected language. At the moment, it supports languages such as Spanish, English, Italian, French and German. This also makes it possible for Tactiq to be used indirectly to transcribe and translate audio from locally saved video files as well as videos from YouTube or streaming platforms.
Other interesting Tactiq options include the ability to share the transcript in real time to a Google Drive or Dropbox document, take screenshots, add notes to the transcript, and much more. Its free version offers 10 free transcription services per month, an amount that can be increased by purchasing a subscription.
Next, we leave you the link that allows you to download and install Tactiq from the Chrome Web Store. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tactiq-transcribe-google/fggkaccpbmombhnjkjokndojfgagejfb.
As we already mentioned, Tactiq is compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and any other Chromium-based browsers, which means that it can also run from the native browser of Raspberry computers.