Today we want to talk with you guys
a little bit about using captions on your YouTube videos
from other languages.
Is it worth uploading a different language
to your video so that you can reach people
in other countries?
Or maybe you are making videos in another country.
Is it worth putting English on captions on your videos?
We're going to talk about that and much more coming up.
Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer, and this
is Tole Khesin from captionsforyoutube.com.
Thanks for hanging out with us, man.
Good to have you.
Hi, Tim.
Thanks for having me.
We are going to talk about using foreign language
captions to reach people in other countries.
So I actually got a question here, Tole,
from one of our viewers.
They asked this.
I am from Norway and speak Norwegian, a small language
which only five millions are speaking.
Should I caption all my videos in English
to reach a larger audience?
What do you say about that?
Yeah, I think it does make sense to translate those videos
to English and to add subtitles, assuming that you would benefit
from an English-speaking audience.
So this is something that goes beyond just YouTube.
But video translation has been gaining
in popularity for a number of reasons.
First of all, multilingual subtitles
help Google and YouTube to index your video,
which increases traffic to your site
and expands your audience globally.
Do the captions need to be in English for Google
to know what your video is talking about?
Can they read in multiple languages?
Yeah.
They'll index it in any language.
And so if you have multilingual subtitles,
they'll index all those languages.
And that's kind of interesting because duplicate content
is not penalized across different languages.
So as a result translated videos add more pages
and keyword rankings and inbound links.
And all of this really just adds up
to greater authority and internet presence.
So what you're saying is not necessarily
should I have one video with English caption,
Norwegian caption, German, French, Spanish, whatever.
But you're saying it actually might
be valuable to create the same video
but maybe just have different voice
over to each one in different languages.
Is that what you're saying?
That's doable too.
I was actually just talking about uploading subtitles
in different languages to the same video on YouTube.
But, yeah, if you're going to embed--
That sounds like a lot of extra work to have multiple videos.
Wow.
The other thing is that by adding multiple languages
it's just easier to rank higher against competitors
because there's simply less competition
across different languages.
So I think a lot of companies, a lot of organizations
are going global.
And video translation is increasing in popularity.
Yeah.
So this guy, he speaks Norwegian.
So if he adds English captions to it,
you're saying that it will benefit
and it will help him reach an English speaking audience even
if his videos are spoken in Norwegian.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yeah, because those English captions
will get indexed by both YouTube and Google.
And so similarly, for me, like, if I
caption this video to be in Spanish,
then I might reach people in Mexico and Spain and all
those people as well.
Yeah.
That's a great way to do it.
Sweet.
So another question.
This is from Hugh Richard.
Says is it worth making captions for the people who
find it hard to understand my accent?
Yes.
I think that's crucial.
As we discussed in a prior video,
80% of people who use captions do it
because it helps with comprehension.
It's not even because they have a hearing disability.
It just helps them to understand the content.
So if you speak with a strong accent,
captions are even more critical.
Cool.
And then we also have another.
This question is from Brian.
Is it possible to run a video through an auto caption program
so that it learns a bit?
Like, they mention Dragon natural speaking software.
And it could tidy up some of the idiosyncratic stuff,
you know, like, related to their language.
Like, he's in Australia.
So he says whenever he says good day,
mate, it often gets translated to get a plate.
So is there a program that does that or something else
you'd recommend or what?
Yeah.
That's a good question.
So it's not possible to do that through YouTube's auto
captioning.
But Dragon is definitely worth trying.
Speech recognition actually works quite well
if you can do two things.
So number one if you can train it
with your voice, which Dragon lets you do.
And the second thing is if you can
restrict the range of vocabulary.
So, for example, if your videos are more or less
talking about cooking, if you have a blog on cooking
and your voice and pronunciation are pretty consistent,
I bet that Dragon would work pretty well
with that after some training.
Cool.
So captionsforyoutube.com, do you guys
have anything like different translations?
Will you guys do translations and stuff well?
Or how does your service work?
Yes.
So with Captions for YouTube, we actually
don't do translations, purely captioning for English content.
Captionsforyoutube.com is owned by 3Play Media.
And if you sign up for a 3Play Media account,
there you can then translate your content
into a variety of different languages.
Gotcha.
So 3Play Media is the place where you can do that.
I'll put a link to both of those guys in the description text
below in case you want to check it out.
We also have a little promo code for you guys.
If you want to check out captionsforyoutube.com and play
with that a little bit, it's creators10, so creators
with an s and the number 10.
And that'll give you 10 minutes to kind of check it out.
Can you just briefly explain to us how that whole service works
and what is that?
Yeah, captionsforyoutube.com is the fastest, easiest way
to add professional captions to YouTube.
Basically just login with your YouTube account.
You select which videos you want to have captioned.
You hit go, and then everything is taken care of automatically.
What happens in the background is
that YouTube sends the videos to us.
We create professional captions that are at least 99% accurate.
We send them back to YouTube and then they just show up,
and you're done.
You're done after you submit it, right?
Right.
So, yeah, I've been using it for a little bit, guys.
I like it.
It's been very hands off, really easy for me.
So definitely go check it out.
Use that promo code if you're interested.
I'd love to hear from you guys in the comments
below about any other services like the software stuff
that you found that helps clean up your things
or what methods you guys use for your captioning service.
That would be awesome to hear of some of your experiences
down there.
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