Comments on: Show and Translate YouTube Captions

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.

By: seo

seo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:39:36 +0000

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: Carina

Carina — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:16:39 +0000

Thanks for all the instructions! Would it be too much if I ask you where in the You Tube embed did you insert the code you mention so that the captions appear automatically? Thanks again
Carina

By: Omer van Kloeten

Omer van Kloeten — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:01:21 +0000

It is a great idea, but the right-to-left languages, like Hebrew, aren’t written in RTL, so numbers and English words break the sentence structure.

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.