Comments on: Show and Translate YouTube Captions

By: Ernst Kasteleijn

Ernst Kasteleijn — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:59:22 +0000

@Jonathan … thanks man! You’re a lifesaver!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:01:13 +0000

If you want to explicitly select a CC language, you can use cc_lang_pref url parameter.
Not sure why this is not better documented, but there is this:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=140174

-Jonathan

By: Derek Jansen

Derek Jansen — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:51:54 +0000

Thanks for clearing this up Matt. I’ve been hunting for info on Youtube captions and how they relate to non-English markets, so this has been a great aid.

By: Arama Motoru Optimizasyonu

Arama Motoru Optimizasyonu — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:50:38 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have got the same question as Fatih ARAMA. Is Google going to improve its Translate? I mean it is sometimes very useless. I sometimes regret losing time to attempt to translate an article into another language. I hope you guys will figure something out.

Thanks

Best

By: Fatih Arama

Fatih Arama — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:12:50 +0000

Matt, it is all great in theory to translate with Google Translate, but I think many of us still find Google translate not accurate in most of the cases… Any chance, you might enlighten us if it is gonna change in future?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:00:20 +0000

Dear Sir,

Google is offering auto-captioning services. It is pretty good but as you know, it is not quite perfect.

I suggest that instead of over-relying on machines to do the job, we should really use the strength of ‘volunteer captioners’ to do the job.

Just like in Google translate, you have the option to ‘Submit a better (human) translation’, there should be this option to ‘Submit a better caption(done by humans)’.

You can even go one step further. Make the contributions of people who volunteer captions open and available on the web.

Then let users or people who watch the video and captions vote for the most accurate captions.

The most highly rated captions would ‘rise to the top’, as is happening to the most highly-rated comments in Youtube videos now.

The way people speak and the accents of people around the world are just amazingly different, sometimes it is best to have a Mexican caption what another Mexican has just said in English.

By: Gand

Gand — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:41:41 +0000

How about HTML5 and H.264 videos as there are no more subtitles?
Is there a way to show subtitles with H.264 codec and HTML5?
Thanks in advance.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:51:13 +0000

PS: I have seen now the post with the “&hl=xx” parameter, but this doesnt works …

For example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM&feature=player_embedded&hl=es
will not show the spanish subtitles.

Thomas

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:36:10 +0000

Dear Matt,

I have a question regarding subtitles on YouTube videos. Let’s say, I have a video with English, German and French subtitles. Is there any possibility to define a parameter in the URL or embedding code, which will immedately select the right subtitle language?

Many users are not familiar with the possibility where and how to change the language. If such a parameter is available, it would be much easier for me to present my multilanguage videos.

Thanks you in advance,
Thomas

By: Dave Dugdale

Dave Dugdale — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:24:22 +0000

Matt I found a site that does do machine speech to text, it is called subply.com and I have done a few videos with them. It is free but their site is a bit buggy and doesn’t seem to be working right now.