There are people who use the auto-translate ability of the YouTube AI, which is pretty decent, as it’s based on Google Translate, but it too will produce trash if you feed it with trash captions. I’m one of them and I can’t watch movies without subtitles because of the overwhelming amount of various sounds in the background of most scenes, which I can hear/perceive just as loudly as the actual speech of the characters. There are many people who like to read, along with listening to the words, for better understanding. There are Deaf and hard of hearing people who used closed captions, but they are not the only ones!Ĭlosed captions on YouTube – the text that explains what is being said on screen and sometimes even noises and music in the background. They can transcribe the words that are spoken and they also bring additional information, describing sounds in the environment, music (sometimes even mentioning the artists, titles and even lyrics, which is awesome) and are used by a wide variety of people. But first of all, what are closed captions?Ĭlosed captions, also known as CC, are essentially subtitles that describe the sounds that appear in a video. If you do have a script (who has time for that), your work will be much easier, you just upload the script and assign timings. Just to be clear, I’ll assume that you don’t read from a script when you film your videos and give the instructions on the fly, while demonstrating the stitches, like I do.

Now I don’t mean to bash the YouTube captioning AI (artificial intelligence) for the trash it produces, as it saves me a lot of work, writing out most of what I say, even if it’s not really legible.īut there’s a lot of work to be done on auto-generated captions before you can call them closed captions. So I’ll share my journey and the lessons I’ve learned from trying to add proper captions to my YouTube videos, as opposed to the garbled trash that comes out of the tool for autogenerated captions from the platform itself.

I’ve searched high and wide for an actual step-by-step tutorial on how to easily add captions to my videos, to not end up wanting to pull my hair out in frustration. If you’re a small-time crochet designer like myself and have started working on a little YouTube channel of your own with patterns or tips and tricks of the trade, you may want to add closed captions to your videos. Pin me for when you really mean to add captions to your videos.

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