Comments on: Show and Translate YouTube Captions

By: Gand

Gand — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:46:24 +0000

@ Ilya
If your video already have subtitles track of your language you can use “&hl=(your language)”
I mean: my videos have English and Italian subtitles with “&hl=en” I get english subtitles, with “&hl=it” I get Italian subtitles. But if I use “&hl=fr” I don’t get any translation to French.

@Matt
I’ve a question, having 2 or more subtitles tracks, is there a way to fetch the browser language without using “&hl=” tag? Thanks.

By: Ilya

Ilya — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:34:11 +0000

I have to second Gand’s request. I want to know if there is a parameter I can pass in the embed code that will display whichever closed captions track I want for the video. This is an important requirement for me.

By: Gand

Gand — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:45:26 +0000

Is there also embed code for translations?
I’ve some videos with english track and wish embed code for some translations.
Thanks in advance.

By: S. Özgür CANKURT

S. Özgür CANKURT — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:06:29 +0000

Hi Matt, its really a useful tool.But i have a question for you , when we can listen your videos in Turkish? (not subtitle)
i mean transcription and doubling with computer voice.im 23 now, can i see?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:28:00 +0000

Hi Matt, your blog is always a great source of information. This is an awesome breakthrough- how do the clickable captions figure under an SEO standpoint?

By: Frank Malina

Frank Malina — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:48:40 +0000

Hi Matt,
Video subtitling is extremely useful for non-native speakers.

I have wrote about this a few months ago on my blog
http://vizualbod.com/articles/online-video-subtitling-is-not-just-for-deaf/

The YouTube implementation is very close to my post
Nice to see, that we as developers think so similarly about the best practices.

By: ShaunsHouses

ShaunsHouses — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:12:30 +0000

BTW, what kind of video recorder do you use? I’ve been thinking of creating a few commercials

By: Daniel Vasquez

Daniel Vasquez — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:18:04 +0000

this is excellent. I think this is going to help a lot of people such as travelers, churches and really any business. we just need to get all these to start adding captions.

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:09:28 +0000

Matt
You gave an example of a url that “will search for the word “china” in videos with closed captions” [ http://www.youtube.com/results?closed_captions=1&search_query=china ] so I’m thinking – if live tweets from an event can be associated with a video of an event (maybe because the video is posted with a link to a (now out of date!) upcoming record for that event in order to anchor it in time) then being able to search the tweets as captions/subtitles provides a crib for deeplink searching into the video? (But then, I guess the Goog is looking at audio indexing anyway?)

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:17:44 +0000

I was tinkering with Youtube subtitles too the other day – and came up with a proof of concept ay for generating subtitles from twitter streams…

… the use case being – generating tweets as subtitles to overlay conference presentations, where there’s a twitter backchannel:

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/twitter-powered-subtitles-for-conference-audiovideos-on-youtube/

Ideally the route needs automating, but I leave that as an exercise for the lazyweb, or at least until such a time as I have a couple of spare hours free…