![]() ![]() Incredibly, you can also select ‘auto-translate’, which takes the English transcript and gives you what appears to be a fairly reasonable version (presumably run through Google Translate) in any one of more than 100 different languages. ![]() Then select the language you require: in this case, you have the choice between Arabic, our own English subtitles, or, for potential comic value, the auto-generated version. Here’s how to view subtitles in another language:Ĭlick on the ‘settings’ cogwheel at the bottom right of the video: It turns out that YouTube has really upped its game on subtitles, making it much easier to add them to our own videos, and providing the means for others to contribute too. The National Democratic Institute ( NDI) recently asked whether we’d mind them translating some of our subtitles into Arabic. But of course, English subtitles aren’t necessarily useful for people who speak other languages. Subtitles make videos more useful for all sorts of people, from the hearing impaired to those who just want to watch without disturbing others. If you’ve picked one of the few we still haven’t got round to, you get YouTube’s automatically-generated subtitles which - while they do obviously represent great strides in voice recognition technology, compared to how things were only a few years ago - can still be a bit hit and miss. If we’ve already provided subtitles for the video you’re watching, that’s what you’ll see. ![]() To switch subtitles on or off, you click the CC sign at the bottom right of every video: You can tell which ones do, by the small CC symbol beneath each one: Watching our videos with subtitles Almost all the videos on our YouTube channel now have subtitles in English. ![]()
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