Add together subtitles and captions

Subtitles and captions allow yous to share your videos with a larger audience, including deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers and viewers who speak another language. Acquire 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 procedure.

Upload a file

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

Before you starting time, make sure that your file blazon is supported on YouTube.

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

Auto-sync

You can create subtitles and captions by inbound them in as y'all scout the video. You'll need to set the timing to sync with your video with this pick.

Note: Transcript text is automatically synchronized to your video. The transcript must be in a linguistic communication supported past our speech recognition engineering science. The transcript must likewise exist in the same language that'south spoken in the video. Transcripts are not recommended for videos that are over an hour long or have poor audio quality.

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

Setting the timings tin can take a few minutes. While yous wait, you'll be brought back to the video tracklist. Once it's ready, your transcription volition automatically be published on your video.

Blazon manually

You tin can cull to type or paste a transcript of your captions and subtitles. With this choice, your subtitle and caption timings will 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], and then that viewers know what'due south going on in the video. You can likewise intermission while typing.
  3. SelectPUBLISH.

To speed up your piece of work, y'all can also employ these keyboard shortcuts:

  • Windows/command + left arrow: Seek back 1 second.
  • Windows/control + correct arrow: Seek frontwards i second.
  • Windows/control + space: Pause or play the video.
  • Windows/command + enter: Add a new line.
  • Windows/command + down pointer: Edit next subtitle.
  • Windows/control + up arrow: Edit previous subtitle.
  • Enter: Add together the subtitle.

Auto-interpret

YouTube tin use voice communication recognition engineering science to automatically create captions for your videos. If automatic captions are available, they'll automatically exist published on the video. Larn how to utilize automatic captions.

Watch how to add subtitles and captions

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

How to Add Captions While Uploading & Editing Your Videos

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