Hello, my name is Peter Carroll and I'm one of the co-founders of RhinoSpike.com.
Today I want to show you how you can use RhinoSpike.com to get a native speaker of a foreign language to transcribe audio, or even a YouTube video, in their foreign language.
You may want have this audio or YouTube video transcribed because you're studying a foreign language and you want to improve your listening skills or to practise shadowing native speakers, or maybe you just wanna understand what the speaker is saying because he speaks very quickly.
First, I will show you how to get a YouTube video transcribed. Find a YouTube video in your language of interest. Here I've found a video in Icelandic that I would like transcribed. [Icelandic] Highlight the URL in you browser's address bar, and hit CTRL+C to copy it or you can right click with your mouse and choose to copy it that way. On a Macintosh computer, you will instead use Command+C to copy or select 'Copy' from the 'Edit' menu.
Now back to RhinoSpike.com where you can see I am already logged in. To submit a transcription request click on 'Submit' at the top centre of the page. On this page I will click on 'Script Request' because I'm requesting a script to be made from a YouTube video. Here I enter a title and select what language the video is in. In this case it's Icelandic. Now I paste the YouTube video URL with CTRL+V or by clicking the right mouse button and selecting 'Paste'. On a Macintosh you need to use Command+V or select 'Paste' from the 'Edit' menu. Finally we enter some tags related to this video and click on the 'Create' button. My script request is done and now a native speaker of Icelandic can transcribe this video for us.
But what if we have an MP3 file in a foreign language you want transcribed? RhinoSpike can help with that too. Let's say you have an MP3 file of the foreign language audio you want transcribed. Here I have one in Spanish. [Spanish] The process to get this file uploaded to RhinoSpike for transcription is similar to what we just did for a YouTube video. On RhinoSpike.com where once again you're gonna click on 'Submit' and then 'Script Request'. Once again I'll enter the title and select a language, in this case it's Spanish and I'm going to click on 'Choose File', or in some browsers this may be 'Browse', and we're going to select the file and them I'm gonna add some more tags and click 'Create'.
Since I'm uploading an MP3 file from my computer this can take a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on my internet connection speed and the size of the MP3 file. Now that my upload is complete native speakers of Spanish can now transcribe the audio for us.
Thank you for using RhinoSpike.com to help with your foreign language audio transcription needs. I hope this video is helpful and informative. Feel free to contact us using the feedback link located on the left side of RhinoSpike.com or email us at feedback@RhinoSpike.com. You can follow RhinoSpike on Twitter or on Facebook to get the latest news about RhinoSpike.com on Twitter the account to follow is @Rhino_Spike and on Facebook visit Facebook.com/RhinoSpike
