Google Drive will now let users view and search video transports

Google is adding a new feature to google drive that will make it easy for users to navigate through videos. Dubbed video transcripts, this is an upgrade to the company’s automatic captions feature from last year. The mountain view-based tech giant highlighted that users can now view and search transports in videos. This will make it easy to locate specific parts of a video as tapping on a sentence will directly jump the video to that time. Notable, this feature is currently rolling out to all google drive users.

Google drive is getting video transcripts feature

In a workspace blog postThe tech giant announced the new feature. This builds on the automatic captions feature that was introduced In July 2024. That feature automatically generates captions in videos when they are uploaded (workpace admins can change the setting to allow caption generation only when requested).

When the feature was introduced, google said that it uses speech recognition technology to transform the audio, give that spoken words have been used and the language used is english. While the company mentioned plans to expand the feature to other languages, that has not died so far.

While the automatic captions feature allowed users to see the captions as the video played, users could not separately view the transports. This is now being added with the new update. When a video plays on Google DriveUsers will be able to open transports in a side panel on the right side.

These transcriptions are shown along with time stamps. Sentence are separated into different items on the list. The side panel also come with a search bar. Users can eather scroll through the transcriptions or search specific words to find the exact time stamp. Click on the sentence will also also jump the video to that time stamp, allowing users to easily find what they look for.

To access the feature, users will first have to play a video in Google Drive. Users should ensure that the chown video has automatic captions. This can be checked by looking for a cc button at the bottom right corner of the video player. Once don, tapping on the settings icon at the bottom right corner will show a new ‘transcript’ option. Tapping this will open the side panel.