Add subtitles and captions

Subtitles and captions allow you to share your videos with a larger audience, including deaf or difficult-of-hearing viewers and viewers who speak another linguistic communication. Learn more than about editing or removing existing captions.

Create subtitles and captions

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Subtitles.
  3. Click the video that you'd like to edit.
  4. Click Add together LANGUAGE and select your language.
  5. Under subtitles, click Add.

Note: You can also add subtitles and captions during the upload process.

Upload a file

Subtitle and caption files contain the text of what is said in the video. Information technology besides contains timestamps for when each line of text should exist displayed. Some files also include position and mode info, which is especially useful for deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers.

Before yous start, make sure that your file blazon is supported on YouTube.

  1. Select Upload file.
  2. Cull between With timing or Without timing, and then select Continue.
  3. Choose a file to upload.
  4. Select Salve.

Machine-sync

You can create subtitles and captions past inbound them in every bit you watch the video. You'll need to set the timing to sync with your video with this choice.

Note: Transcript text is automatically synchronized to your video. The transcript must exist in a linguistic communication supported by our spoken language recognition engineering. The transcript must likewise be in the aforementioned language that's spoken in the video. Transcripts are not recommended for videos that are over an 60 minutes long or accept poor audio quality.

  1. Select Machine-sync.
  2. Enter the words in the video or upload a transcript file.
  3. Select EDIT, and then click SAVE AND Close.

Setting the timings can take a few minutes. While yous wait, you'll exist brought dorsum to the video tracklist. In one case it'south ready, your transcription volition automatically exist published on your video.

Type manually

Y'all tin can choose to type or paste a transcript of your captions and subtitles. With this pick, your subtitle and caption timings volition be set automatically.

  1. SelectTypemanually.
  2. Play the video and enter your captions or subtitles. Don't forget to add text like[applause] or[thunder], then that viewers know what's going on in the video. You can also intermission while typing.
  3. SelectPUBLISH.

To speed up your work, you can besides apply these keyboard shortcuts:

  • Windows/command + left arrow: Seek back 1 second.
  • Windows/control + correct arrow: Seek forward 1 second.
  • Windows/control + space: Pause or play the video.
  • Windows/command + enter: Add a new line.
  • Windows/control + downwards arrow: Edit adjacent subtitle.
  • Windows/control + upward arrow: Edit previous subtitle.
  • Enter: Add the subtitle.

Auto-translate

YouTube can use speech recognition technology to automatically create captions for your videos. If automatic captions are bachelor, they'll automatically be published on the video. Acquire how to utilize automated captions.

Scout how to add together subtitles and captions

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to add together subtitles and captions.

How to Add Captions While Uploading & Editing Your Videos

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