How To Use Rev Transcription: Blogging Ideas & Tips

About this video

Note: this video’s caption track is in Arabic, summarized in English. Dale gives an updated Rev.com walkthrough focused on repurposing: Rev offers transcription, captions and translation, and beyond the SRT file for a video it also provides a full transcript as a TXT file, which he downloads and turns into a blog post. He shows linking a YouTube account to Rev, ordering English captions — he states the price as $1 per minute, so a 9-minute video costs $9 versus at least two hours of his own time — with automatic delivery back to YouTube, and he mentions a $10 discount on a first order through his referral link. To build the post he copies the downloaded TXT, pastes it into a word processor as unformatted text, breaks the wall of text into separate sentences, then edits heavily: spoken language does not translate directly to writing, video calls to action must be rewritten for readers, and paragraphs should be short and direct. He says this editing took him about half an hour and warns against keyword stuffing, advising light Google keyword research instead. He then pastes the edited text into WordPress, runs a check with a tool like Grammarly, embeds the original YouTube video, inserts images to break up sections, adds headings so readers know what each section covers, and previews before publishing, estimating about 15 more minutes of polish. He cautions that turning a transcript into a book is a much harder, more laborious process that can cost extra in editing, and defers that topic.

Key takeaways

• Rev’s TXT transcript output, not just its SRT caption file, is the raw material for repurposing a video into a blog post.
• He states English captions cost $1 per minute and are delivered automatically to a linked YouTube account.
• Never paste a raw transcript as a post: break it into sentences, rewrite spoken phrasing and video CTAs, and keep paragraphs short.
• Do light keyword research but do not stuff keywords; over-mentioning terms is a reason to revise during editing.
• Finish the post with an embedded video, images between sections, headings, a grammar check and a preview; a transcript-to-book conversion is far more work.

Episode details: published April 9, 2019 · 15:25 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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