YouTube to add transcription feature to Android app

San Francisco : Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is bringing video transcriptions to its Android app.According to Android Police, with this new feature, users do not need to be sitting in front of a computer to scroll through a script.Once it is live, they can click on the “Show Transcript” button found below a video’s expanded description, sandwiched between any provided chapters and other suggested uploads from the channel.These transcript options appear pretty similar to what’s been available on desktop for a while now but transposed to a mobile-friendly UI.

Users can scroll through a full script on their phone, either to read along with a video or to jump directly to a timecode.Unfortunately, without the ability to directly search through lines, it might be a little less useful than the desktop version, the report said.The report mentioned thatAtranscriptions make it a whole lot easier to search out specific parts of a video.