Imagine if viewers can't understand your content because of your accent or have the sound turned
off, you'd probably lose it. In this video, I'm going to show you five ways to quickly
transcribe a YouTube video so viewers can read the captions while watching your video.
I'll show you how to quickly edit the auto-generated captions from YouTube, add your own subtitles,
upload a professional transcript, or use free software to generate subtitles in different
languages. Hi, my name is Herman Drost. If you want to
grow your audience on YouTube and generate traffic, leads, and sales on autopilot, hit
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new content. Here's how to edit the auto-generated captions
from YouTube. Log into to YouTube channel, click on the Profile icon, click YouTube Studio,
click the Videos tab, select the video that you wish to transcribe, click on the pencil
icon that says, "Details," click Subtitles. As you can see YouTube has automatically created
the subtitles for this video when it was published. Let's go back to the video to see the auto-generated
captions from YouTube. Click on CC, play the video. Now we can see the auto-generated captions
that are created from YouTube. Automatic captions are available in English, Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. YouTube encourages creators to
edit the automatic captions because they're not entirely accurate.
To do this, hover over the three dots, I can edit on Classic Studio or I can download the
file, and edit it that way. I'm going to edit on Classic Studio, if I click on Actions,
I can download the file. If I play the video, I can see the different captions under the
video right here. Click Edit, it'll take a few minutes to edit the auto-generated captions
to make sure it's accurate. You can also use keyboard shortcuts right here. As the captions
appear on the video, you'll see them under the video right here. When you're finished
correcting the auto-generated transcript from YouTube, click Publish edits. Now you'll see
two files. You've got the automatic captions right here and you've got the edited captions
right here. Now just click to update. Now I've got two files. I've got the auto-generated
ones here, which I'll show you how to remove later, and I've got the corrected ones right
here. After editing the document, I can just upload the file to YouTube. Let me ask you
a question, how do you currently transcribe your YouTube videos? Post your answer on the
comments below. I'd love to read them and I'm sure others would too.
Another way to edit the auto-generated captions is to download the file and edit it that way.
Hover over these three dots, click Download, here's the file captions.spv. If I right-click
on it, open with TextEdit, now I can just go through the document and just make all
the corrections as I need. After I've finished editing the document, I can just upload the
file. Here's how to add your own subtitles and closed
captions. Click Add Language. Click English, United States, under Subtitles, click Add.
Or I can upload a text transcript, I can transcribe and auto-sync, so I type or paste in a full
transcript of the video, and subtitle timings will be set automatically. You also create
new subtitles or CC. I can create subtitles and closed captions
by typing them in as I watch the video. Click Create new subtitles or CC, as I play the
video, I can just enter the text to the left. I can also use the keyboard shortcuts. After
I've finished adding all my captions, just click Publish.
Now I'm going to transcribe and auto-sync from a file that I've got transcribed. Click
on Transcribe and auto-sync. I'm going to select a file that I got transcribed by GoTranscript.
I'll place a link in the description to GoTranscript professional transcribing services if you
want to check them out. Here's the transcript. I'm going to select all the text, copy it,
and paste it into the box, Command+V. Click Set Timings. I've got the auto-generated transcript
here and I've got the professional generated transcript here. I'm going to wait a few minutes
to set timings. I'm going to click Set Timings, it says, "Subtitle timings being set. Check
back soon." I'm going to click Setting timings and here's the video that's been transcribed
by professional third-party services. Click Publish. Now I can see that my video has been
transcribed into English, United States. Now I want to get rid of this auto-generated
transcript. I click on that, click on Publish, click Delete Draft, click Delete Draft. Now
if I click CC, play the video, I can see my captions displayed accurately on the video.
Here's how to generate subtitles and captions for your videos with a free online editor.
Go to kapwing.com, click on Tools, scroll down, click Subtitler, upload your YouTube
file, or paste a link in the box. I'll paste my YouTube link in here. It says Fetching
Content. I can add more in subtitles or to generate the subtitles or upload an SRT file.
Click Auto-generate. If you haven't signed in, you can continue with Google. It says
"Using this tool, you can add subtitle automatically, powered by artificial intelligence. Note that
this feature is still in BETA and the process is not 100% accurate. After adding the subtitles,
you can then edit the text in the editor." Select your video language. Select English,
United States, or if you want to translate in a different language, you can select from
all these languages. Click Auto-generate. Now, Kapwing has auto-generated all the subtitles
for the video. Now, I can just play the video and edit the
subtitles line by line. You also have the ability to format the text, change the text
position, change the background, and download the SRT file. When you download the SRT file,
it contains all the texts and timings of your video. You can then upload the SRT directly
to YouTube to display the subtitles on your video. I'm going to click create, Kapwing
is now creating the edited transcript for my video. I'll place a link to Kapwing in
the description below this video. Here's my video that's been transcribed by Kapwing.
If I play the video, I can see the accuracy of the captions. I can download the video,
edit the video, make a copy, share the video, or embed the video. If I click Edit, then
I can download the SRT file and upload it to YouTube.
Should you transcribe your YouTube videos? Absolutely. Here are three reasons why you
should transcribe your videos. Number one, people who can't hear the video can read the
captions under the video. Number two, you want to appeal to an international audience.
Some of those people who can't speak English can't understand what you're saying in the
video, so they can read the captions under the video. Number three, viewers often pay
better attention to your video if they can read along while watching it. This can improve
the engagement and watch time for your video. Number four, repurpose your transcript into
a blog post, or share it on your website to reach a larger audience.
Do you want to reach a global audience by translating your videos into different languages?
If that's a yes, watch my next video on how to translate videos into any other language.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the next video.