Did you know that YouTube audio generates closed captions
Every time you upload a video to YouTube, we're going to talk about that and a lot more in today's video
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G'day, this is Doug from Doug usin YouTube and we're here to help you with tech for content creation
And today we're talking about all things
closed captions a couple of months ago
I did a video on an app called speed scrubber where we showed you how you can get closed captions
Produced from your video file and you can check that video out right here in the card right now
Today we're talking about the order generated closed captions that YouTube
Automatically works out for you when you upload a video. I'm going to show you on the computer right now
where that file is on YouTube and what you can do with it and we'll come back right at the end and
Tell you some more information
Well, we're here on the computer. Once again that my channel is open now first thing
I want to show you we're gonna go to the most recent video on our channel
So I'm going to create a studio first of all
And I'm still I still like to do things in the traditional creator studio
So here we are we go to the video manager over the side here
And we'll get that cracked open here
And here is our most recent video as of recording
The free sound effects size of video on the download sound effect pack free. We had a source short effects
What you want to do is click on the little arrow here next edit and go down to subtitles and closed captions
That's gonna open right up here and what you can see is a video window
and what you can see here, there's one published set of
closed captions and it's English is automatic and what it says automatic what that is is the
YouTube has gone through your video and automatically added its own closed captions
So the accuracy of it is gonna be questionable depending on your accent and your language
how easily the Google i/o I can actually
Interpret your spoken word into text
But we can have a look at that
So what we want to do is first of all, you can take the automatic closed captions already in there
We're gonna click on that
Published Auto FC see what it will do
is it'll open up this little window where we can do some editing we can unpublish it you can see here greyed out is
Thomas stamps and what it translated my text in so this is one way you can do what you can do here add actions is
Download that file so what we're gonna do
Is pick which option we want to download and I think I usually go with if you get SRT
What it'll do it just opens up another window in your browser
we have all this information in there and what you can do is
Save that cut pay set to like a text file and you can save that
So what I've done before is I'll just grab this down. We'll just drag this out for the entire video
You want to keep the timestamps and everything in place?
We're going to take this we're gonna I'm just gonna copy that and then I'm gonna open up
I'll paste that in and then we can just save that
So it's just gonna save it as a text file
So save that and then what I can do is just sit on this text file. I
Can play for the video and I can edit this and possibly then upload that backup
So that's one way of doing it. So that's gonna be there the way I'm gonna close this
Back to here. Another thing we can do is actually sit here and do the closed captions and edit these
Waltz were here watching that the video
So if we click Edit here
this opens up and then you can see
That it's going to start playing the video here
And what we can do is actually go in here and make any adjustments. We want to
The text to make it as accurate as possible whilst we're listening to the video
I'm not going to do it right now here because we're going to show you a couple different options now in
One of my previous videos the one on the speed scrubber for transcripts and close close their captions
I actually showed you the part of actually uploading a file back to here to have it actually register as an
Uploaded or personalized a closed caption
So there's not record not listed any longer as an automatic transcription
So therefore once you've got an illegitimate uploaded one
You know for the little closed caption section on your video
Listing so that indicates that there's personalized closed captions available
So what I'm gonna do first of all is a back out of where I am here
So I'm gonna delete the draft
Because basically it created a draft and edit it now if we just go in and edit that and then save that as a new
Record and then I would have an English version that didn't say automatic and that's what I want to do
Now if I wanted to upload say the file that I've already
Uploaded I've edited it and want to send it back up. I can simply go add or no
subtitles
Click English or whatever language that you're uploading
This is the same process if you want to upload a translation as well
We have a couple of methods here that we can do we can use some of the systems here like transcribe and auto-sync
And we can upload a file and we can create new subtitles or closed captions
They do different things. But if you're uploading any sort of file, you're gonna use the upload file option
Now you've got two options. You can upload a subtitle file
or a transcript
now transcript is just the text written out in like normal language and paragraphs and what it will do is try and
Automatically sync that up once you upload it. It'll try and think the transcription up with the spoken word
Now subtitles file is a file has all the timings and timer markings and timestamps much like the father
We downloaded so I could say sometimes file choose file. I
Could actually choose the file that I downloaded
just now to the
TextEdit folder, which was this one here
I could tell it and it's that one and
It would be sitting there and then I click upload and then it would upload that information and it would
to its
Processing which wouldn't take long at all and then I would actually see it as an option in the list when we go out
I'm gonna back out because I haven't done anything to that text
I don't want to replace the inaccurate text with the same inaccurate text
So I'm just going to cancel over that but otherwise what you would see
Is we come in over here?
we would see like a new option down here under published and that would become the
Default and the more correct closed caption, but because of course I use speech grabber to do my closed captioning
I don't sit do it manually which I used to do. I'm gonna once I've got that processed
I'm gonna upload that that particular file for this video. That's pretty much how you can download what YouTube's already done
Edit it and fix up the mistakes and then re-upload it and then have a legitimate closed caption file on your video
get a little CC mark on your video and
Attract the viewers who want to watch it with volume down or have hearing impairments
So it's always worth throwing on the closed captions on your videos
Whether you do it yourself
Whether you get a service to do it I encourage you to do it in the next video. We're gonna talk about
three ways
That you can generate closed captions apart from the auto-generated closed captions on YouTube
We're going to look at a couple of ways that are available to you
If you don't want to go the YouTube route
Although the YouTube routes the most convenient because it's automatic because it's half done for you already
But we're gonna look at those in the next video
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Well, that's all I got time for today. This is Doug from dog usin YouTube and I'll catch you later