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RIKKI: Around 38 to 48 million people
in the United States alone are
deaf and hard of hearing.
And 642 million of them, worldwide
are deaf and hard of hearing.
One of those 642 million people include me.
If you Google how many videos
are on YouTube right now,
you will see a result that says
over 81 million videos
are on YouTube right now.
If you were to go through the
filter, and click for the videos
that have captions on them,
you would find that a very
small amount of them
are actually captioned.
That means that so many of these
videos that are uploaded,
don't have them.
So why is the lack of
captioning such a big deal?
Well, let me start off by saying that...
Is this thing on?
Ah. There we go.
You see where I'm going with this?
There are three ways to
closed caption your videos.
One, using the Creator Tools,
two, using a third party resource,
and three, crowdsourcing.
In the Creator Tools,
there are three ways to
set up your captions,
and get them ready to go.
The first option is to
upload a transcript file.
You can create a document,
or write out the transcript,
save it as a text file,
or an SRT file, and then upload.
The second option,
and the one I actually prefer,
is to just write down the transcript,
and then copy and paste
into the transcribe and autosync box.
The real difference between the
two options is simply
just having a backup file
of your captions,
and taking a little more time
in the captioning process.
So if you want to have more
options for backing up your files,
do the first one.
I just like the second option more
'cause I'm apparently too incompetent
to save a text file onto my Macbook.
The third option, and the one that I
actually think is the most tedious
is to simply create new subtitles.
It's an option that I've never
enjoyed using,
and everybody else that I know
has never liked it, either.
No matter which of these three
options you choose,
I highly recommend that you
write your transcripts out in Google Doc,
and nowhere else.
Why?
Google Doc will autosave after
every single edit that you make
to your document.
The last thing that you want
when you're spending an hour or so
writing up your captions,
is hitting the backspace on accident,
going back to the previous page,
and then coming back to your captions,
and seeing that everything is gone.
So once you get your captions uploaded
onto your video, you need to give it
a couple of minutes for it to sync.
It can take anywhere from
a few minutes to a little bit longer,
simply based on how long your video is
and how much text you have
for your captions.
And then once your captions are synced,
you gotta take the time to sit down,
and make sure that everything is
lined up correctly.
'Cause nobody wants captions
that show up with a 5-10 second delay.
We're very tired of captions
being delayed.
Oftentimes, a YouTuber
won't have captions on their videos
because of time constraints.
The good news is that
there are loads of companies that will
actually do the work for you.
One of my favorite companies is Rev,
which only charges a dollar a minute
and they will typically give you
your transcript within 24 hours.
If you can't afford to have the
fancy companies do the
captions for you,
and I understand because
that is the situation with
a lot of YouTubers,
there's a way to get that same stuff,
although a little less professionally done
for free.
Last year, Google came out
with this thing called crowdsourcing.
And it's really awesome.
And basically, crowdsourcing
lets your viewers, your subscribers,
your friends, your family, whoever
simply put the captions in for you.
And again, it's all for free.
So if your videos don't already
have English captions on them,
your viewers and subscribers
can do that for you.
And then when that's done,
if you have viewers that are
multilingual, they can help you
translate those captions into Spanish,
into German, into Mandarin,
whatever language...
It's more than likely gonna be on there.
So all you have to do is go
into your settings on YouTube,
and turn on the fan contribution subtitles.
But not only that,
you need to make sure you go on
Twitter, or make a video, a Facebook post,
and let your viewers know about that
because it is a new feature,
and people don't really
know about it yet.
But it's a really, really good thing.
So the more people know about it,
the better.
Plus, when you have your videos
available in multiple languages,
you have a much better chance of
viewers around the world
coming to you, and subscribing to you.
Also, in case you're worried about the
possibility of trolls, you actually don't have
to worry about that.
You're always going to have to
review the captions and subtitles
before they actually
go on there.
Now, if they're in different languages,
I would suggest just putting it
into Google Translate,
which, obviously, it's not going to be
100% perfect.
But it will give you a general idea of
what they are, and what it translates to
so you know whether or not you can post it.
Captions are a really great thing
and a lot of people just don't know about them.
So when you have captions
on your videos, you're going to get
so many people that know about you
and want to watch your videos.
Trust me when I say that
there are so many of us,
that would more than likely be
subscribed to you,
but the issue is that
we don't know what you're saying,
which can be a problem.
You like to enjoy YouTube,
and so do we.
We want to know what you all are saying
and we want to laugh with you,
or learn whatever it is
that you're telling us.
So if you get those captions
on there one way or another,
I'm very, very certain that you will start
to see your view count
and your subscriber count
go up just a little bit.
Maybe even more than a little bit.
Probably a lot.
So now that I've taught you about
all the options,
all you need to do is
pick one that fits your
abilities and your schedule.
If you can't do it yourself,
there's no need to feel
bad about it.
That's why that there are many, many
options out for you.
If you can't do the captions yourself,
there's no need to worry about it.
No need to feel terrible about it.
That's why that there are
so many options out there.
So if there's a YouTuber out there
that doesn't caption their videos,
and you would like to see them
caption their videos,
just send them an email or a tweet
with this video, and cross your fingers.
Make sure to share this video
with your friends,
so everybody will know how important this is
and learn a new thing.
It's really simple.
You just gotta know about it.
And a huge thank you to YouTube Space, New York
for allowing me to be in their
NextUp 2016 Program,
and for allowing me to film in this room.
And thank you, Jonathan,
for helping me set up everything.
Okay. I will see you later.
Bye.
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