Did you know that some YouTube channels will allow you to contribute translated titles,
descriptions, subtitles, and closed captions for their videos. You can also get credit
for the contributions for that video. They'll be viewable on the YouTube watch page and
by clicking the CC icon on the video player. Stay tuned throughout this video to discover
how to auto-translate your YouTube videos from community contributions.
Hi, my name is Herman Drost. If you want to grow your audience on YouTube and generate
traffic leads and sales on autopilot, hit the subscribe button and click the bell notification
icon, so you'll be notified whenever I upload a new video. Here are the requirements to
receive community contributions. Number one, the channel owner must enable community contribution
on their channel or on their video. Number two, you can select content for the entire
video or just add what you know. If you see existing content that's already
been added by the community, you can add the parts that are missing. Here are the steps
to submit community contributions. Step one, enable community contributions for your channel.
Login to your YouTube channel. Click YouTube studio beta. Click transcriptions. At the
top here, I've got all-- these are all the transcriptions for my videos. Drafts is a
draft transcriptions. This is the published transcriptions.
If I click on community, it says, "Get your videos translated easily and automatically."
If I click on this gear icon, it says, "Community contributions. Turn on or off community contributions
for all of the videos you've uploaded. This may also turn on the feature by default for
new videos. You can turn this feature on or off for an individual video at any time from
its settings page." For example, if I click on CC, then I can
see the transcription for this video. If I click on it again, it turns it off. If I hover
over the settings icon, I can select subtitles CC and turn it on for English (United States).
I've already uploaded a Hindi transcription, so you'll see Hindi there also. I can just
select any one of these. If I select Hindi, then I'll see the Hindi captions here.
If the video content hasn't been transcribed, you won't see a CC icon below the video. You
also wants Hindi captions on the video. To use this feature, select the default language
for your video uploads. What language is spoken most in your videos? I've got English (United
States). You can turn on here or I can turn on here. I'm going to click turn on. Now it
says, "New languages will be added as soon as the community submits them. Let your fans
and the rest of the YouTube community know how they can help with this link." If I copy
this link, paste it into the browser, anyone will be able to submit a translation of my
video content for this video. Step two, select the video you wish to translate.
If you've been given the contribution link by the creator, all you have to do is click
contribute and contribute your translated version of the content. Alternatively, select
the video, click the gear icon, click subtitles and CC, then you can see this video is already
been translated into English, French, and Portuguese. Step three, add subtitles or CC.
Click add subtitles CC. Step four, select the video language. It says,
"What language would you like to translate into?" Click the dropdown. Select the language.
I'll put Spanish in here, Spanish (United States). Click set language. Step four, translate
the video subtitles. Up here, it says title and description translate, subtitles and CC
translate. If you want to translate title and description, just click on that. I'd put
the translated title in here and the translated description in here.
For the translated subtitles and CC, just click on subtitles and CC. If I click the
actions dropdown, I can upload a file or I can auto-translate. I can just click auto-translate.
It translates the captions into Spanish. You can see the translated Spanish captions under
the video. After you translated the video content into Spanish, just click submit contribution.
For this video, I chose auto-translate from English to Hindi. Here's the captions under
the video. Step five, send to the community for initial
review. I just click submit contribution. It says, "Are the subtitles done? No, let
others keep working on them. Yes, they're ready to be reviewed. Note, these subtitles
need to be reviewed by others before they're published. You won't see them on the video
right away." Because the translation has been machine-generated, I'm going to check no and
just click submit. How do you get credit for community contributions?
After submitting a contribution, you can choose if your name shows on the list of contributions.
In order to get credit for your contributions, you must have a YouTube channel. Keep in mind
that your contribution might be modified or improved by other contributors. If you want
to contribute a translation to this video, I'll put instructions in the description below
this video. Here are three important things to keep in
mind. Number one, remember to turn on community contributions for your channel. Once an international
audience find your channel, they want to keep coming back for more. Instead of just translating
one video, it'll be more beneficial to translate an entire video series. Number two, invite
the community to translate your videos. You can ask them in your video or invite them
in the description of your video. You might also include instructions on how to translate
your video. For example on how to do this, read my instructions
in the description below this video. Number three, check YouTube analytics to see how
well your channel is performing for foreign languages. Compare the watch time from the
original language of the video with all the other translated languages. Ultimately, expanding
the reach of a global audience will result in more views, comments, and subscribers.
Let me ask you a question. What if you want to translate your own videos to other languages?
No worries, just watch my next video on how to translate English subtitles or captions
into other languages. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video.