Hey it's David from the Redneck Garage well today were going to take a little trip off
the beaten path then the typical let's turn wrench on a vehicle we're going to talk about
something that youtubers are interested in and it's how to add closed captions to your
YouTube videos why you might ask would we want to do that ? well there's
a couple different reasons first of all people that have hearing issues right let's be sensitive
it really helps him out to be able to see closed captioning the second reason though
which is more concern to me is that when you do it video let's say like one I did a couple
days ago on an Optima battery optima yellow top sometimes youtube or Google right doesn't
index just your title of your video as well as the rest of it so if you do closed captioning
it indexes all of that everything that said in the transcript of your video is actually
spidered by Google and when somebody does a search for Optima battery yellow top then
that video will come up before someone that doesn't have that so that's really super cool
if you're trying to reach other viewers when closed captions are good way to do that also
when I started doing this I thought wow no problem the be some kind of program or software
or something to do that that makes this easy and that's not the case so I'm going to go
through what I found out about doing closed captions I'm also going to come up with a
solution that's free that I didn't see anybody else have so just from the redneck garage
straight to you if you want to do closed captions get more exposure for your videos then this
is the way to do it and it doesn't cost you a dime okay so when you thinking about closed
captions Google will actually automatically do a closed caption you can see the results
here I just pulled up one of my old videos that they did okay so what I said was there's
a Honda we're going to be working on and how they transcribe that was high and there's
a high know they were going to be working on getting it on and okay so clearly the closed
captions from Google is not really that good so we'll click on the closed captioning tab
set language to English default for new uploads set language ok so I'm going to go look at
and you look over here and it says English automatic you pull that up and it will actually
show you what it transcribed now what you could do is go through and correct every line
that will take you for frickin ever right so that's out you're not going to want to
do that because usually the transcription from Google is terrible so then we're going
to go into the next step you could do right you can add new subtitles English you can
click on that and it will say transcribe and set settings and then you can go in and you
can type everything that is spoken there and then the end of it you can hit set timings
and it will actually set the timing of the words in there I tried to do one of my old
videos the other day in this fashion and it took me over 2 hours to do like a 20 minute
video so as you try to type all this in it will stop playing
okay and you can see that it will pause and clearly this just takes a huge amount of time
to be able to do that so for me that was out took over 2 hours to do a 20 minute video
the other night and that drove me insane trying to type all that stuff out so what is the
solution so I examined a bunch of different ways to do it I did searches on the internet
Google Yahoo everything trying to figure out how people did their transcribing if you make
a lot of money and you're a big corporation you send it off to a transcription service
and they charge you per minute to do it this is YouTube and the profit motive isn't there
for me to pay people to transcribe my videos okay so what next so then I went over to Best
Buy the day after Christmas and here's a couple scenes from that the return line was really
long and I felt sorry for those people as I walked in that was pitiful and the other
thing that I noticed was that there was no software you could buy at the store anymore
I needed a microphone for my Mac because it didn't have any inputs so I went over to the
Mac section and this is the software selection you can buy at the store everything is gone
to downloading off the internet so that's what I did. Now up to this point I spent a
couple hundred bucks trying to get a way to transcribe the videos through voice and its
just my voice mostly on the redneck garage transcribe that so I don't have to try to
take everything in so dragon for the Mac has a transcribing feature that you can put in
a video and it transcribes it out that's what it's advertised it was really super awesome
so let's take that same video about the Honda and see how it transcribes that video and
what that comes out looking like okay so now I have the super cool dragon dictate open
which is a hundred and fifty bucks IM going to go into tools and go to transcription awesome
so it's telling me to choose which file I want to do so I'm going to go to my desktop
where I've got the file that we were just listening to and I'll go down to there it
is new tire cover and I'm going to open it up and I'm going to wait for it to transcribe
the video simple sample everything is easy so now it is starting to transcribe video
okay so here's the video this is what it actually says on the video alright there's a Honda
that we're going to be working on got the hood on and everything else but first the
redneck garage okay and what its transcribed for 200 bucks was as there was a lot of there
was going to be working to put on any thing else but first the redneck garage open it
up and give you my impression of what this looks like for such a log longer okay for
200 bucks that just isn't going to work because the amount of Corrections that would be needed
to get the amount of words would take longer than typing it out the stupid thing out so
so Dragon Dictate sucks okay so at this point I tried everything in the world man I took
a headset and tried it up next to the speaker and having it transcode the video that didn't
work this headset is a Logitech actually didn't work on my Mac even though it says it does
it was all garbled up so I bought another microphone a regular style microphone USB
style same thing tried tried even speaking into it and it was so crappy that I couldn't
even speak into it and get to work on Dragon Dictate then I put it on my PC thinking ti
might do a better job I bought the cheaper program the $50 one and it was just as bad
so now I've spent all this money on Dragon Dictate and dragon naturally speaking for
the PC and neither one of them work worth a crap to close caption YouTube videos so
what do you do whats the answer do I have a solution yes yes I do that works really
fairly well without spending two hours to typing it all out out so here's the super
secret thing to do if you want to transcode your YouTube videos to closed captions this
is the easiest way to do it and guess what boys and girls it's free that's right it's
free all you have to have some type of microphone some kind of input device to be able to capture
your spoken audio so let's go through that real quick okay after doing quite a bit of
searching on the Internet I found out that there is actually a free program from Google
that works with the Chrome browser and I'll put a link down at the bottom of the video
here in the description so I can go to it but it's called online dictation and one of
the things that I found with that is as far as accurate goes this thing is bullet proof
I'll just go ahead and start talking a little bit and as I talk to you can kind of see that
it is very very accurate as far as what it is transcribing much much better than the
dragon naturally speaking and this is freaking free okay so here's my solution: the way it
worked the best for me basically what I do is open up two windows this one with the online
dictation on this right side and Youtube over here on the left side of the video that I
want to have closed captions and I just hit start dictation and play the video alright there's a Honda that we're going to
be working on there's a hood on and everything else but first the redneck garage is going
to open it up and give you my impression of what this looks like okay and if you can see
the texts on there it is actually a perfect transcription of what I said so this thing
works really really well okay so now at this point I'm going to stop listening because
now it's recording everything I say haha at this point all you really have to do is copy
your text right just copy it all or you can save it or exporting but let's just say we
copy it and you would go over to your window here for your YouTube video once you get all
of it recorded you're going to hit closed caption you going to put English and then
basically you're just going to paste it in here I haven't done the whole video so that's
not going to help you know as far as that goes and then you're just going to hit set
timings right in then when you hit set timings it will come back up and I'll show you another
video that I did earlier just to give you an example okay here's one that I did earlier
on the automobile battery install and you can see that it says English it doesn't say
automatic so Google will actually index that click on it and you can actually go back in
and edit it and you can see that it is going down so you can do your final editing on your closed captions
are not usually it's pretty close actually when I use it and then you're just going to
go over here on publish and it publishes it up so when you go back over to your videos
and you look at them you'll actually see the closed captioning logo right underneath it
that shows closed captions and that will be indexed and yes I had to answer this one question
for my buddy Jerry at BS corner sucker beep smelled like a dirty beep that was some bull
beep so it does do the dirty words too Jerry in case you want to try this haha haha so
it does the dirty words 2 anyway I've spent a lot of time a lot of money a lot of trial
and error trying to figure the best way out to transcode videos without spending a ton
more money and this I believe is the best way to do it the Google transcription service
is free all you need is a microphone your goal is to phone you're getting people that
have some kind of hearing problem a way to enjoy your videos and you're also getting
more exposure for your own videos because it searches everything that's in that transcription
I would love to hear any concert suggestions how it worked for you that would be super
cool to cuz it's always nice to know that you're able to help someone here at the Redding
garage that's always our goal so you will be able to see on this video after I get it
done and in the can I'm going to go ahead and transcribe it with the same process that
I share you here in the video super cool anyway that's going to be about it for tonight I'm
David from the redneck garage keep turning wrenches