If you want to get more watch time on YouTube videos and reach a larger
audience, add closed captioning to your YouTube videos. This will enable the
hearing-impaired to understand the content of your video and if people have
their sound turned off they can read the captions below the video. Stay tuned
throughout the video to discover how to add closed captioning to a video on
YouTube. Hello my name is Herman Drost if you want to grow your audience on
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The easiest way to add closed captioning to a video you're watching on YouTube is
to click the CC icon at the bottom right of the video. That means that YouTube
auto generates the captions it says English (auto-generated) Click for
settings so if you click the settings you can see that the English is
auto-generated that means YouTube auto-generates the captions we can see
that the auto-generated captions appear at the bottom of the video the auto
generated transcription is not entirely accurate so I'm going to edit it so how
do you add closed captions to your own YouTube videos so they'll more accurate than
the auto-generated ones from YouTube? Log in to your YouTube channel click YouTube
studio beta click transcriptions select the video that you wish to add closed
captions to. I'm going to select this video as you can see it's already got
published automatic captions on the video you notice you have people from
the community to create your transcriptions. I also I have community
contributions turned on for this video so anybody from the community can add
closed captions if want to edit the automatic captions just click on the
publish icon it says view published subtitles and CC english automatic so if
want to edit those just click on edit I can now edit the transcription
after you've edited the transcription, click publish edits. Now I've got the English
automatic and I've got English. So that's the free way to add closed captions to
your videos you simply edit the auto-generated captions from YouTube. How
do you upload a transcript of your video created by somebody else? Log in to YouTube
channel click YouTube studio beta click transcriptions select the video you want
to add closed captions to. I'm going to select this one click add now I can upload a file which
means upload a text transcript or timed subtitles I can transcribe and
auto-sync which means type or paste in a full transcript of the video and
subtitle timings will be set automatically or I can create new subtitles
or CC which means create subtitles and closed captions by typing them in as you
watch the video that's what I showed you previously so this time I'm gonna choose
transcribe and auto-sync click on that here's my transcript so I'm just gonna
copy all that. I'm going to paste the text into this box click set timings now YouTube
is setting the timings typically it takes a few minutes for YouTube to
create the closed captions for your video while we're waiting for the video
to be processed I just want to remind you that you can go to GoTranscript to
get your video transcribed 100% by humans You can get your video content
transcribed for under a dollar a minute and the turnaround time is under six
hours I'll place a link in the description below this video
alternatively you can go to rev.com and get it transcribed there let's check
if the transcript has been processed Click English setting timings here's my
transcription which I can edit if I still see mistakes when I play the video
I can see the captions on the video as well as under the video after I'm satisfied
with the transcription and the closed captioning click publish now it says
that the subtitles are being published if you still have the auto-generated
captions it'll appear under the transcript so you click on English and
click on publish and then delete the transcript you can also upload the
transcript if it's on your computer here's how to quickly upload a
transcript using YouTube studio beta select the video, click advanced
click upload subtitles CC select with timing or without timing I'm going to select
with timing click continue select the transcript file from your desktop
highlight it click open click Save and that's all there is to it
So what are the top benefits of adding closed captioning to a video on YouTube?
1. Increases watch time viewers pay more attention to your video when they
can read along while listening to your video content
2. Reach a larger audience viewers that have difficulty with the hearing or have the sound
turned off because they're in the library or at work can read the captions
under the video now you'll be able to extend the reach of your audience to
those people as well
3. Read content on mobile devices. As you can see the captions are easy to read on a mobile device
4. Repurpose your transcript. Since you have a transcript of your video content you can repurpose
it by adding it to your blog social media sites etc you can even convert the
transcript to a PDF file and submit it to document sharing sites to get even
more traffic. Let me ask you a question.. Do you want to get more views and
subscribers to your YouTube videos by exposing your content to a larger audience?
If that's yes, watch my next video on how to translate your video content into
different languages. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video