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  • Trouble seeing/getting automatic subtitles for Youtube video

    Posted by Neil Orman on May 1, 2020 at 1:56 pm

    I have an interview-based video, which I uploaded to Youtube, and I’m trying to get to the automatically generated subtitles so I can fix any issues. And for some reason I can’t see or get to these automatically generated subtitles, even after uploading the video several times to see if it was a fluke. I’m not sure if this is an issue with Youtube Studio, because when I had a choice I always used Youtube old/classic creator studio (where I used to do this with no problem). Youtube seems to have taken away that option, so I’ve tried to use Studio and still can’t see these subtitles when I go to the captions place, or they’re not generating for some reason. I’ve googled the issue but still can’t figure this out, so I’m grateful for any tips here!
    Thanks, Neil

    Neil Orman replied 4 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Mark Suszko

    May 14, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    I hope you’re wrong because I depend on that a lot. I’m still finding I can get to classic via an account I made the Chrome, but in Safari I’m hitting your same problem. I haven’t had to do the captioning for a couple of weeks, so now you have me wondering… I’ll try to test this and report back but it will take some days.

  • Mark Suszko

    May 15, 2020 at 3:36 am

    So I found this and it looks like auto-caption is still there, they just make you go thru a bunch more steps to work with it now… and no longer offers .srt and .vtt file options, meaning more conversion work (sigh) which is why I preferred Classic…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcHIZ9aI9TA

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  • Neil Orman

    May 19, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    Hi again Mark! I appreciate this other resource you suggested very much. I actually discovered an imperfect but workable solution within Youtube. Apparently its auto-captioning option has trouble when there’s a long period at the beginning of a video with no spoken words, and just silence or music. And I had 15 seconds or so of just music when I originally uploaded. So to get around that issue, I uploaded a new version, with that dialogue-free prelude cut out just to capture the subtitles. Then Youtube recognized the new version’s speech quickly, and generated an auto-captioned version. However, this workaround is time consuming, requiring one to then download that file and bring it into the original uploaded version, with the music/titles prelude included. But that’s the only fix I could come up with, within Youtube anyway. Let me know if you or others have found other solutions, though. And I’ll check out this other resource, thanks again Mark!
    I hope you’re well.
    Neil

  • Michael Sieb

    August 23, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    You can check out Type Studio. It is a text-based video editor that allows adding subtitles with just one click. You can also export the SRT files if you want to use them somewhere else.

    https://typestudio.co/

  • Mark Suszko

    September 29, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    Had a thought regarding your problem of having silence or music up front… make a sub-dub of the track and add throw-away dialog just to fill that hole. When you get the timed SRT from YouTube, just delete the filler part.

  • Neil Orman

    October 6, 2020 at 2:49 pm

    That is a great suggestion, thank you Mark! I hope all is well!

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