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How do you turn on transcripts on YouTube?
Here’s how to do it:
- Launch the browser and open YouTube.
- Log in to your account.
- Click on the profile picture in the top right corner of the screen.
- Scroll down to “Settings.”
- Find “Playback and performance” on the left.
- Under “Subtitles and Closed Captions,” enable “Always show captions.”
How do I add CC to someone else’s YouTube video?
Submit contributions
- Go to the video that you want to contribute translations or transcriptions to. Not all videos support community contributions.
- In the player, select Settings .
- Select Subtitles/CC. Add subtitles.
- Choose what you want to work on: Closed captions (original video language) Select the video’s language.
How do I force YouTube to generate subtitles?
How do I set YouTube to auto-generate captions for my video?
- Click on the User menu in the top right corner.
- Select YouTube Studio.
- Click on the Adanced tab.
- Set the Video language as English.
- Click on Save, if you made any changes.
- Click on the User menu in the top right corner.
- Select YouTube Studio.
Why are my subtitles not working on YouTube?
In the YouTube app press the account icon, then select settings and then captions. if your are setting up captions via the Android settings>accessibility settings then YouTube does not use those only the options you select in the YouTube app itself.
How do I turn on subtitles on YouTube without CC?
To turn captions on or off by default:
- Go to your Account Setting Page.
- Select Playback.
- Under captions, check or uncheck the “Always show captions” box and/or “Show automatic captions by speech recognition (when available)” box.
How to list the available subtitles on YouTube?
You can list the available subtitles ISO 639-1 language codes with youtube-dl: It seems that doesn’t work with automatic generated captions. I’ve found out how to do it. to your video url, and subtitles will be on youtube.com by default. Of course, you need to use your language instead of de.
Click on Subtitles and CC. When you click on Add new subtitles or CC on the next screen, a search bar will be shown. Search for the relevant language. YouTube’s caption editor will open and you need to go through each caption frame to find out errors, if any, and correct them.
What do you need to know about closed captions on YouTube?
Since you’re creating closed captions, don’t forget to mention even the background noise and sounds. After you’re done, click on Set timings to auto-sync your transcript with the video. YouTube allows your community of viewers to actually contribute to your titles, descriptions, subtitles and closed captions.
Is there a way to force subtitles on YouTube?
On bash/Linux you can just copy the URI with that structure and then run this command (Spanish code hardcoded) to transform clipboard content (you can make an alias): You can list the available subtitles ISO 639-1 language codes with youtube-dl: It seems that doesn’t work with automatic generated captions. I’ve found out how to do it.