How do you translate your YouTube videos to English subtitles or other languages? Stay
tuned throughout this video to discover how to translate the subtitles and captions of
someone else's videos and how to translate the subtitles and captions of your own videos
so you can reach a global audience. Hi. My name is Herman Drost. If you want to
grow your audience on YouTube and generate traffic leads and sales on autopilot, hit
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a new video. If you translate your video into another language,
then people who can't understand the language that you speak can read the captions under
your video. Adding text on the screen increases the watch to completion rates. It also opens
your video to the search engines so you get more views, subscribers, and comments. Here's
how to quickly translate someone else's video to English subtitles or a different language.
Click on the CC icon to see the subtitles and closed captions of the native language
for that video. As you can see the closed captions appear in English on the video.
What if I want to translate these English subtitles and captions to a different language?
Hover over the settings icon. Click subtitles and CC, which is currently set to off. Click
English auto-generated. Now, you see the auto-generated captions on the video. Click English auto-generated.
Click auto-translate. Select the language that you want to translate the video into.
I'm going to select Spanish. Now you've got the auto-generated subtitles and captions
for that video. Let's play the video a little bit more.
As you can see, the subtitles are translated into Spanish. If you want to select a different
language, click on the settings icon. Click auto-generated to Spanish. Click auto-translate.
Select the different language. Let's select Hindi. Play the video. Now you can see that
the video is translated into Hindi. What's the difference between captions and
subtitles? Captions assume that the viewer can't hear anything because they may be hard
of hearing, or have the sound turned off. Subtitles assume that the viewer speaks a
different language. Here's how to translate the subtitles and captions of your own videos
to other languages. Step one, check which countries are sending the most traffic to
your YouTube channel. Log in to your YouTube channel. Click YouTube
Studio Beta. Click go to channel analytics. Click build an audience. Scroll down to top
countries. I've got United States, India, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada. I'm going
to select India as my second top country for traffic where they speak Hindi. Click on videos.
Step two, select the video you wish to translate. Select this video, click transcriptions, click
add language. What if you want to get somebody from the
community to translate your video? Click the dropdown that says community contributions.
Click on for this video. Now you can receive community contributions
to translate your video to another language. Step three, edit video transcription. I already
have an English transcript for this video. I'm going to click on that. Here's my video
that's translated into English. If you want to edit this transcription to make sure it
sounds right, click edit. You can then just edit the text for this video. After you've
done it just click publish edits. Step four, download the SRT captions file
to your computer. Click actions and download SRT so click SRT. I'm going to name this translate
captions. Save it to a desktop. I've already got one so I'm going to replace that. Step
five, translate the video content. For the purposes of this video, I'm going
to use Google Translate to translate the video. Go over to the Google Translate Toolkit and
just google it. Here it is. Click Upload. Click add content to translate. Click upload
file. I'm typing my language, Hindi. What I want to call my file? Click next. Choose
file. I'm going to select translate captions.srt. Click open. Name it translatetohindi. I've
had Hindi here. Next. It's uploading. Now it said, "It's translated." I can pay $64.54
to get it translated by somebody else. Click, no thanks. I'll translate it myself or invite
friends for help. Click on translate to Hindi. Click on the file. The original text in English
is on the left here, and the computerized Hindi translation is on the right.
I don't know how accurate the translation is because I don't speak Hindi. I get someone
that speaks Hindi to check. Alternatively, you can use the human translation services
from GoTranscript to transcribe your video. I'll place a link in the description below
this video to GoTranscript. Now that I've translated the English subtitles into Hindi
I can download the SRT file. Step six, download the translated SRT file
to your computer. Click File. Click download. I'm going to call it translatetohindi3, and
the format is going to be SRT. Click Save. Step seven, add the transcription to your
video. I'm going to go back to my video. Click transcriptions. Click add language, and then
select Hindi. Click add subtitles. Upload a file. Here's my file. Highlight that. Click
open. It says, "This transcript may contain additional formatting that can get lost if
overwritten." Here's the video that's translated into Hindi subtitles. Click publish. Now you
can see I've got English, United States, and I've got Hindi. Have a look on the transcriptions
for this video, you can see I've got Hindi and I've got the United States video language,
English. Now if I play the video, you can see the subtitles have been translated into
Hindi. If you want to get a more accurate translation
that is not machine generated but done by actual humans, click the link in the description
below this video. Let me ask you a question. What other language
do you want to translate your videos to? Put your answers in the comments below. I'd love
to read them and I'm sure others would to. What if you also want to translate the titles,
descriptions, and tags of your own videos to other languages? No worries, just watch
my next video on how to translate YouTube videos to other languages. Make sure you like
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Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video.