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[Jill] Hello, welcome I'm Jill... [Jenna] and I'm Jenna.
[Jill] We are ASL Stew, but you guys already knew that.
So today we're talking about craptions.
But first before we describe that, let's talk about
what closed captions are.
[Jenna] Okay, closed captions are text based
words on a video, that follow what
the person is saying and sometimes it includes audio cues
or different sounds. That way it helps Deaf and Hard of hearing people to
understand what is going on within that video. Also, it can help other people as well.
[Jill] Yeah, some people who are learning English will sometimes
read that and recently, I was watching an opera
play that was in a movie form. So when they would sing I wouldn't understand what
they were saying well. So it's perfect for that. Also, if you look at our
video right now, down below you'll see a CC. You can click that
and it will have options, for us it's English, but some people have
Spanish and multiple other languages as well. So, you can click that
and then the captions will come up. Click ON, and then I think that will
continue to be on, but that way you can read it.
[Jenna] They have what are called auto-captions on YouTube.
Typically, if you click on the CC, you'll see it says English, and then it will say
auto or sometimes it will say beta as well. I don't know. It just depends.
Umm, and on that it means that YouTube did an
auto-caption and they're trying to follow
uhh, like a speech assisted
technology that translates. I mean,
it's kind of okay on some things, but you have to have
perfect voice. No, strong accents or anything like that.
So, it's not always bad, but most of the time, if there's an accent, or even if it's just
environmental sounds, it will be totally off!
Not reliable at all! So, you can't really 100%
trust those auto-captions. That's why you need to
add your OWN captions to it. Adding those are
really important. [Jill] Right, that's why the
auto-captions are called craptions. I'll see if I
can find the video. I think it's from the Fine Bros.
They made a comedic video, talking about, you know using the
auto-captions and it's really funny. So I will try and find that and leave it in a link below.
If I can find it. Okay, so now we've talked about
the reasons why viewers might want to have captions. If you're Deaf or
Hard of hearing, you can't understand the speech, so you need to read the words.
If you're learning English, or if you have an auditory disorder, but now I want to talk about
why it's important for people who make YouTube videos,
creators, why it's important for them to have captions.
Proper captions, not craptions!
One thing is if you have proper captions,
more people are going to be interested in your video. You're providing access for Deaf
and Hard of hearing people, and all of the people we just listed. They will be able to access
and watch your videos. If it's craptions, they're not gonna want to watch it.
They won't watch your videos anymore. So it's good for you! [Jenns] Yeah exactly.
I'm really picky with watching videos on YouTube, and to be honest
I don't watch too many, but when I do I always check if they actually
have good captions, like if they made them themselves. If not, then
I'm not even gonna bother watching. You're potentially
losing viewers, or even subscribers.
You know, you're losing that chance.
[Jill] Exactly, it's a really important thing that when you make
videos, you want to be accessible for everybody! That means more people are
gonna be attracted to your videos.
Another good thing, is if you go ahead and type
up captions for a video, or if you allow somebody else to
do it, like a viewer to donate captions, make sure you
read them and that they're appropriate. Let's say you're video is in English,
maybe you want to provide captions in English, appropriate captions,
other people might be able to take that transcript or whatever
and then they can take that and translate it into
other languages. Meaning even more accessibility!
So, people will have English and then you can let other people
do Spanish or what other language you want. It's really great!
Even more accessiblity. [Jenna] Right, so if you want to add
captions, maybe you don't know what to do.
It's quite easy. There's quite a few different ways that you can do it, and we're gonna
have links down below in the description to Rikki Poynter's video.
She made several videos actually how to do that, as well as Jill.
She made a video explaining how to caption. So we'll add a few different links and show you
different ways and then you can take a look and see which would better match
what your comfort level is. Really it's not that hard.
[Jill] So like she mentioned there's a lot of different ways to do captions.
Understand, they typically don't cost anything. YouTube has their own system that you
can do captions for free if you want to, or you can invest money
and buy a specific software. Which I will leave a link down below, the one that I use.
Umm, really it's just important,
with captions like she said, we'll put in the different links for mine and for Rikki's.
But remember it's not only for hearing people,
but Deaf people as well. It's important they caption. If you're a Deaf
person that doesn't do a voice-over for your video,
or even if you do like we do, it's still important to caption your videos
for accessibilty for everybody.
[Jenna] Right, because we have signing, plus a voice-over, but some
people may not understand both of those well. So you have a third
option which is having captions. So that way everybody has
equal accessibility. That's really the goal!
[Jill] Right, exactly some people, maybe they're deaf or something but they don't
know sign very well and they're still learning. So if you provide captions
on your videos, like proper captions, that will help them to be able
to learn more. Maybe learn more sign and become involved in the Deaf culture which
is pretty cool. Okay, so we've talked a little bit about it,
but make sure if you are not doing your own captioning
say you're opening it up to let subscribers or just viewers caption your video,
you need to READ
and approve them. [Jenna] Yes, definitley look at them and
review them and make sure they are right. [Jill] Right, because maybe you
don't think about it, but many times the captions are not correct.
People might have a lot of misspellings, or sometimes people
even add their personal commentary on there.
I've actually seen this a few times and I'm like that's not what they're saying.
It's the captioner's personal, uhhh opinions and it's
leaving out some of the other things the person is actually saying who is doing the video.
So, make sure you read them beforehand, because a lot of people aren't
reading them before they publish them. For whatever reason
if you're not able to do it yourself or pay to have someone do it, if you have fans
or viewers caption it. Whatever that's called, make sure you please
read them, edit them, do whatever you need to do before you publish.
It is so frustrating for people to watch that!
[Jenna] Okay, so now we have the hashtag #NoMoreCraptions.
So what you can do, is we suggest you guys spread this on
social media. Facebook, Twitter, whatever
social media you use. Us the hashtag #NoMoreCraptions.
Maybe you can talk about your experience with craptions,
how it impacted you, why this is important to you.
Really we just want to spread the awareness.
[Jill] Right, if you want to, you can share this video, including the
hashtag #NoMoreCraptions. Plus, you can
have Rikki's video and share that. If you know any other YouTuber's who are
involved with the hastag #NoMoreCraptions, include
their videos as well. Share them! Share as much as you can!
REALLY we want to spread this message to as many people,
and impact as many people, and cause as much change as possible. [Jenna] Yes, let's get the
hashtag #NoMoreCraptions trending!
[Jill] Yes, please do. I can't wait to see! We'll be looking out.
Okay, so hopefully you guys have enjoyed this video. Maybe you've learned something.
Again, if you have any questions for us or anything, leave us a comment below
or you can Facebook message us, or whatever. We'll try to answer as much
as we can to help you guys become experts with captioning.
Properly, not craptioning... no, no, no.
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Thank you so much for your support. [Jill] Alright see you in the next video. Bye!
[Jenna] Alright, good I'm glad you're safe. I feel better.
Alright and great. So, I'll be there
in a minute I've just gotta (fog horn blasts) finish this up.
[Jenna] ...that I got this one.