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TexasTowelie

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5. I use a variety of find and replace commands to edit the transcript from YouTube
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:55 AM
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into Microsoft Word to remove hard line breaks, find the word "quote" to edit punctuation, make global changes to text, and correct spelling. Overall, the same process applies whether I copy the transcript or use AI tools to create a summary using that summary.

There are times when I listen to the video where the punctuation from auto-transcript requires correction or it gives a completely different meaning to what the speaker intended. I'm also able to logically group the sentences into paragraphs of variable lengths that most AI programs can't handle. Finally, I insert in the content that gets eliminated using the transcript available on YouTube.

I'm certainly willing to use AI for summaries and various other features to save time since I consider myself to be a 'B' student as a writer, but I'm an 'A' student as an editor so I will always rely on my interpretation of a speaker over the interpretation by AI.

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