Using Free Tools at YouTube to Caption Videos

Presented 6/19/12 by Lisa Wahl & Bridgett Perry,

consultants to the AT Coalition at the Center for Accessible Technology

Agenda

• What is Auto-Translate?• Which videos are GOOD candidates for using the

Auto-Translate feature to generate captions?• How do I use it?• Bonus: using the translate function for other

languages• Issues & Sources of Support

Web Tour: YouTube

Good transcription: Ed Robertshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW15TQrqBag

Poor transcription: Laughing at the Disabledhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xql7w3xPC8Q&feature=related

Good Candidates for Auto-Caption

• Clear speech• No accent• Minimal or no background noise or music

After uploading (and waiting) the Machine Transcriptions will be available.

You can see and download them.

On the Mac, they can be opened in TextEdit, a free utility that comes with OS X.

Play the video & correct the transcript.

Save file as .sbv

“Return to all tracks” and “Add New…”

Soon there will be two options

The corrected file is “English”

Language translation is another option.

Spanish captions

PC view of a video with no CC option, as yet.

Selecting Caption from the previous screen takes me here. Notice + add new captions or Transcript button

Clicking on Add new Captions or Transcripts button from previous screen opens this form where it wants us to upload an available caption or transcript file. The Auto-Transcribe has not been created yet.

Differences with PC

Notepad instead of TextEdit

Fine-tuning

• Showing captions by default– add this tag to your video: yt:cc=on

(Edit your video/basic info/tags)

• Embedded video with captions by default– Directions at YouTube http://support.google.

com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=140174

iDevice IssuesYouTube is a Flash-based Player. The CC does not show up on an iPad or iPhone visiting YouTube.

For captions to play on an iPad and iPhone:

-ProTube HD $1.49 http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=19417

-Photon Flash Player Web Browser $4.99http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photon-flash-player-browser/id430200224?mt=8

Support

From YouTube

How to create captions and subtitles on YouTubehttp://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100079

For more information, please see these Help Center articles:�How do I turn captions or subtitles on/off, or change languages?�How do I add or edit captions/subtitles?�Can I get help captioning or subtitling my video?

From Others

CaptionitYourself: Best practices and more at http://www.dcmp.org/ciy/

Alternatives

• Movie Captioner- free 14 day trial, then $99 http://www.synchrimedia.com/#movcaptioner

• Free software for subtitling including– Subs Factory for the Mac

• http://download.cnet.com/Subs-Factory/3000-13631_4-170418.html

– Subtitle Workshop for Windows • http://subtitle-workshop.en.softonic.com/

• Professional captioning