

In the drop-down menu, choose the language that’s spoken most in the video and click Set language.


Next to the video you want to add captions or subtitles to, click the drop-down menu next to the Edit btn.To add new subtitles or closed captions to a video: If you already have captions or subtitles, get help editing existing captions. Learn more about these benefits with Creator Academy best practices or in our YouTube Captions and Subtitles video. They also act as metadata that helps your videos show up in more places on YouTube. More information about the new text replacement setting can be found on the YouTube Help website.Subtitles and closed captions open up your content to a larger audience, including deaf or hard of hearing viewers or those who speak languages besides the one spoken in your video. When presented with Andrew’s tweets about the feature feeling “infantilizing”, the spokesperson responded by stressing that the tool is being implemented to prevent words which are potentially inappropriate from appearing in the site’s automatic captions by mistake. They went on to add that this is the default setting for automatic captions, which can be turned off and does not apply to manual captions. “So to better avoid these mistakes, viewers will now see “” appear instead of a potentially inappropriate word (when auto-generated subtitles/closed captions are turned on during playback).” In an article explaining the tool, a Google employee writes: “Because our automatic captions can make mistakes, we want to be extra careful not to caption certain words incorrectly. The introduction of the feature follows reports of the n-word being inserted into the automatic captions, which rely on speech recognition, when the word wasn’t said in the video itself. This is not a good feature, YouTube.- Andrew Parsons September 18, 2020 There is a huge difference between censoring yourself, and someone else doing the censoring. One video I know the person uses F-bomb regularly and automatic captions is"", " off", " ton", and " ing" all over the place.
