Hi everybody, today I'm going to show you how to open up a video transcript and
subtitles in English and other languages on my channel. Remember that the tips I'm
going to show you in this video will not work on all YouTube videos. They will
only work on YouTube videos where captions and translations have been
uploaded by the creator or where the creator has enabled viewers to upload
captions and translations. So first let's look at what a video looks like when
you're following the transcript and subtitles at the same time. I've
opened up an older video that I did called context clues, and I have already
opened up the transcript here to the right and now I'm going to play the
video showing these subtitles in English. This is what that looks like.
...Today we're going to talk about context clues and using context to understand
word meanings...As you can see the information shown in these subtitles is
also highlighted to the right in the transcript. So how do we open up the
transcript? I'm going to show you that now to open up the transcript. You first
have to turn on the subtitles to turn on subtitles come over here to CC. After
you've done that, check the language by clicking on the settings wheel here,
click subtitles, and I see that English language is checked which is what I want.
I'll just click it once more and now we'll open up the transcript by going
down to these three dots here . Click on to them. Click on to open transcript and
there's our transcript. Now to copy the transcript is very very simple. You just
click and scroll all the way down in the blue area. Right click click copy open up
word. Right click click paste, and there is the transcript of all the words that
I say in the video. Now you can edit your transcript in Word. I'll go ahead and
close this out and we can do the same in other languages as well. So now I'm going
to show you how to turn on the subtitles and transcript in Spanish language. So
to switch the Spanish, first we'll switch the subtitles. So you go to the settings
wheel subtitles see how English is checked. I'm now going to check Spanish,
and here you see that my subtitles are now in Spanish, but my transcript is
still in English. So I'll go over here, and I'll click the little triangle by
English at the bottom of the transcript, and I'm going to click Spanish. So now if
I play the video you'll still hear me talking in English, but you'll see
Spanish in both the subtitles and transcript like this function is that
context helps us understand meaning now. I can also copy and paste the Spanish
transcript into Word. I do that in the very same way I did it with English. I
just scroll back up to the top, click copy all that text in the transcript,
right click onto the blue area open up word, and I'll right-click and I'll paste
the Spanish language transcript into my document. And you can edit as needed. So
now I'm going to show you two more details with YouTube subtitles that are
interesting and useful for teachers or students in a classroom.. What I like to
do with my videos because the language of my videos is English I like to open
up the transcript for students in English, but I like to put the subtitles
in the students native language. So let's switch to a new language like Chinese. To
do that we can go to settings subtitles Chinese simplified so learners watching
this video can see simplified Chinese side-by-side with the English transcript.
It would sound and look like this: ... understand meaning here's an example we
went inside to escape the frigid temperatures...
You could also reverse it and you could put the transcript in simplified Chinese,
and you could put the subtitles in English, so it would look like this: ...the
new word in the sentence is frigid...So now I'm going to show you one final
trick that is useful in the classroom and that is to use auto-translated
subtitles. Now not all videos have auto-translated subtitles. You have to first
have an official transcript or official subtitles in a language then you can
have YouTube automatically translate it for you to use auto translate, which is
down here. You have to first click on a language to translate from, so I'm going
to click on English then I'm going to go back to subtitles, and I'm going to click
auto translate. Now we can pick any language from this list, so I would like
to pick for this video. Let's pick Arabic. YouTube produces automatically
translated subtitles that are translated from English into Arabic. Now the only
problem is that often automatic translations contain errors in
punctuation grammar and sometimes even vocabulary. So I'm looking at that Arabic,
but I can't be sure it's correct because it's not an official translation. So I
hope it's correct, and I'm going to show you what it looks like to play it now :
...this word you could use the context around it...So you see how easy that was
to use those automated translations. So those are my tips for today in using
transcripts and subtitles in English and other languages. I hope you found this
video helpful