Along with the replies to my last video
with the curious droid announcements which I
would like to thank you all for, if you
did actually reply I am working my way
through the things. I have now enabled
the community contributions on all the
curious droid videos both past and going
forward from here. So what does that mean
I hear some of you ask. Well it means
that if you are a non-english speaker
you can now translate the closed
captions or the subtitles, the titles and
the descriptions of any of the videos
into your own language which will allow
other non-english speakers to enjoy the
videos too. Now if you've already done
this before you will know what to do. It's
quite simple but I had no idea how easy
or how difficult this was, so after a bit
of digging around in the YouTube Help
section I found out how to do it but
it's not immediately obvious so I made
this video showing how you can do this
for any video on any channel and not
just the curious droid ones here. So
firstly find the video you want to
translate under the video, normally in
line with the thumbs up thumbs down you
will see add, share and in three dots and
usually the word "more" it can vary from
browser to browser but it should look
like it does here on Firefox. Click on
the three dots "...more" action and in a
drop-down box will appear. At the bottom
of this list is add translations, click
on this. The translate window will appear
with a video on the right on the left. At
the top you have the option to either
translate the title and description or
the subtitle/CC closed captions.
You can do one of each or both it's up
to you. Under this is the language
selection here on mine you can see it's
already showing English to English, now
I've already done the subtitles or
closed captions for this video in
English so you will see that under each
of the two options it's saying locked
and the hover text is showing say only
the owner can change this which is
correct I don't want to changing again.
But if you click on this switch language
link to the right
- the English - English part a language
selector will appear, go down to the text
box where it says search 186 other
languages and start to type in the name
of the language you want so for example
"D" will bring up all the ones starting
with "D". "S" will do the same, there may be
more than will fit in the box so you may
have to scroll down to find the one you
want. When you've done that in this case
I'm going to go and select Spanish
(United States) then click on the set
language button When you found the one
you want. The two options at the top of
the page will now show translate under
each so you can now supply translation
it will show English - in this case
Spanish (United States). If a translation
has being done it will either show review
or published. If it shows review a
translation has already been done any
pending but you can go and review the
other person's work to verify that it is
actually correct. If it says published
then this has been done and it's been
approved by the owner which is me in
this case. In the subtitle section which
we are currently in you will see the
time section on the left and in the
original English text to the right of
that part and underneath there is a
blank area. If you click on that blank
area a text box appears, this is where
you put the translation of a few words
of English above into this. The
translation will also appear as the
subtitle on the video on the right hand
side. There is an auto translate feature
but obviously this won't be anywhere
near as good as a native speaker but I
am only using it here just to show the
text over the video. All you need to do
is go through the pieces of text to the
end of the video. You don't actually have to
do all of it, you can do part of it and
then just save what you've already done
you don't need to change the timings on
the left just add the translated text in
each section when you've done that there
is a "credit my contribution" tick box
just above the video on the left tick
this box if you want your name to be
credited in the video's description, if
you want to remain anonymous
just leave it unticked. You can also
translate the Title and the Description
of a video. To do that click on the Title
and Description option at the top of the
page. You can now add your translated
text in the boxes on the right, one is
the Title and the other is the
Description. When you've done that click
on the submit contribution button. It
won't appear right away because it will
have to be reviewed and verified by
others in the community and then the
owner which is me. Once it has been done
though it will appear as an available
translation in the settings and when the
CC closed caption button is enabled and
That is pretty much it now it's up to
you to translate which ever videos you
want but the most popular and the most
recent would probably be the best places
to start, so I will thank you in advance
and I'll look forward to seeing your
translations in action.