Hello here's a quick introduction how to use automated captioning in YouTube.
Captions are a great idea for videos for several reasons: first of all
they are great for people with disabilities like the hard of hearing. Secondly
also people that don't want to listen to your video but just want to - for example -
read it in a cafe without
having their headphones in, captions make that possible.
Thirdly a really good thing is to turn a video into text because then you can put
it for example in a blog post as a transcript.
You could even make it timestamped two people can jump to a certain part of the
video rather than having to watch the whole video
and it makes indexable by search engines. The fun thing about YouTube is that it
has an automatic captioning system which gets you quite a long way on the way
you just have to do some tweaking afterwards and this is what I'm going to
show you right now.
Now in YouTube when you logged in you have to go to your channel to find
out
where your videos are. There you go to the Video Manager
and there you see the videos that you uploaded I uploaded this video here as a
demo to show you how to use these kind of captioning systems.
So you go to "Edit" and then you get the video in there.
You can do all kind of enhancements, audio, annotations
but there's also subtitles and CC. So, if you click on that one
and you select the video language, YouTube automatically gives you the captioning
which the timestamped version of the video.
This is done very, very fast so I'm quite sure that it does that
during the upload already which is kind of creepy but at the same time
in this case now handy for us. So you see the "English automatic" here right now and if
you click on that
you see the automatically generated captions for this video.
So if I now listen to that video or play it you can see that it actually
jumps along on the time line here and you can see down there where you speech
is going on
and what the different parts of it are. So let's try that out quickly.
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create preview images
or thumbnails from big images on your hard drive in the simplest way
all this all you have to do is drag and drop the images into browser
You can see does lots of errors in there.
Yeah I was mumbling a bit - you have to edit those things.
well, luckily enough there is an edit button here so if you
if you change these you click the "Edit" and that one now turns this into an
interface that allows you to do many more things. You could type subtitles
but you could just edit the ones that you have. So, for example you we got "hello
there"
if you listen to this one "hello there make some notes that calm is a website
that allows you to simply create
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create prepay load Ayer
make it up" So you see why you editing it keeps jumping backwards and forwards
which is kind of annoying why you do it but you can also stop that
by pressing the pause button and then for example here you got make some known
STATCOM
which actually is "make thumb
nails.com" is a website allows to simply create preview images.
So you can do all your editing here a bit by bit and then you add up.
So, I'm not gonna go through all the editing here - there's lots of little
errors in there but it's not that hard to do. Normally takes about like 10
minutes to go through a video of like 5 minutes to 8 minutes to fix all the
things in there
and you can see the previews live going on there. Once you're done with the
editing all you do is hit the "publish" button.
The publish button then gives you this option in the live video.
Here, we got the "English automatic" which is the one with all the errors in
it
and we got the English that we started editing. You want to turn off the "English
automatic" one. To do this you cannot delete them
that's a weird thing that YouTube does but he got an action up there saying
"unpublish" and when you unpublish it becomes gray and is not available in
the live video any longer. Now we only have the edited version
in the video available for people. You can also when you click on the
the subtitles that you created save them as a VTT as a SRT or
as in SPV file.
The SRT file is something that could send for people to for example translate
as well
so we don't only have English subtitles but also French, German - whatever.
A lot of people in the community actually want to translate subtitles so
that's what you would sent them.
Once they're actually translated you just add them to the video later on and
you have the video in different languages
and if you look at the video now and you play it you could turn off and turn on
the subtitles here and if we have more than English
it would show up here as well. Once you get a new SRT it's very simple to do
that as well
because on every editing tool here, on every video that we have
you have to opportunity to upload a different format so you click "subtitles in
CC"
and then you can say French for example and once that's there you can upload the
file that somebody created for you and that would add it as well.
So with a few more extra minutes we turn our videos not only into videos but also
into text files
and that's a very very good thing for the web so let's do that every time we
have a small video.