Use automatic captioning

Captions are a great mode to make content accessible for viewers. YouTube can use speech recognition technology to automatically create captions for your videos.

Note: These automatic captions are generated by motorcar learning algorithms, and so the quality of the captions may vary. We encourage creators to add together professional captions get-go. YouTube is constantly improving its speech recognition engineering. Still, automatic captions might misrepresent the spoken content due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise. You should e'er review automated captions and edit any parts that haven't been properly transcribed.

Automatic captions on long-grade videos and Shorts

Automated captions are bachelor in Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

We encourage creators to add together professional captions start. If automated captions are available, they'll automatically be published on the video. Automatic captions may not exist ready at the time that you upload a video. Processing time depends on the complexity of the video's sound.

YouTube is constantly improving its voice communication recognition applied science. Merely automated captions might misrepresent the spoken content due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise. Always review automatic captions and edit any parts that oasis't been properly transcribed.

Here's how you can review automatic captions and make changes, if needed:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Subtitles.
  3. Click the video you want to add captions or subtitles to.
  4. Under "Subtitles", click More than  next to the subtitles you want to edit.
  5. Review automated captions and edit or remove whatever parts that haven't been properly transcribed.

Troubleshoot automatic captions bug

If your video doesn't generate automatic captions, it could be due to one or more of the post-obit reasons:

  • The captions aren't available all the same due to processing complex audio in the video.
  • Automatic captions don't support the language in the video.
  • The video is besides long.
  • The video has poor sound quality or YouTube doesn't recognize the speech.
  • In that location's a long flow of silence at the beginning of the video.
  • At that place are multiple speakers whose speech communication overlaps.

Automatic captions on live-stream videos

Note: Automatic captions for live streams are available in English merely. The automatic captions tin only be turned on for individual alive streams, not the entire channel.

Automatic captions for live streams are currently being rolled out to English channels. These channels are streaming at "normal latency" with professional captions unavailable. We encourage creators to use professional captions first. Learn about live explanation requirements.

After the live stream ends, live automatic captions won't remain on the video. New automatic captions will be generated based on the VOD process, and may be different from the ones that appeared during the live stream.

Set upward live automatic captions

Here'southward how you lot tin can turn on live automated captions:

  1. Go to YouTube.
  2. From the meridian right, click Create and thenGet live.
  3. Choose Stream  from the left-hand carte.
  4. Within stream settings, turn on Closed captions.
  5. Cull "Automatic captions" as the captions source.
  6. Select your video language.

Troubleshoot live automatic captions

If the live stream doesn't show automated captions, it could exist due to one or more of the following reasons:

  • The feature hasn't been turned on for the channel, as we're slowly rolling out to channels with more 1,000 subscribers.
  • Channel is streaming in ultra low or depression latency (such every bit a mobile live stream). Live automatic captions are but available for normal latency streaming.
  • Automatic captions don't support the language in the video.
  • The video has poor sound quality or YouTube doesn't recognize the speech.
  • There are multiple speakers whose speech overlaps or multiple languages at the same time.

Note: To forestall automatic captions from beingness shown on your live streams make it touch with the Creator Support Squad.

Automated captioning avant-garde settings

Potentially inappropriate words in automatic captions

The "Don't show potentially inappropriate words" setting in YouTube Studio replaces potentially inappropriate words with an open bracket, two underscores, and a closed bracket "[ __ ]" by default in automatic captions. This setting doesn't impact any audio tracks or manually edited captions. It's intended to help prevent potentially inappropriate words mistakenly appearing in automated captions. It also doesn't impact your video'southward monetization condition.

Automatic captioning applies to uploaded videos and live streams.

Nosotros still encourage creators to review all their automatically generated captions as we continue to improve our speech recognition software and reduce automated captioning errors.

Here'due south how you can turn off the "Don't show potentially inappropriate words" setting, if needed:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte, select Settings .
  3. Select Aqueductand then Advanced settings.
  4. Nether the "Auto-generated captions," deselect Don't show potentially inappropriate words.

Note: This setting is available for automated captions and machine-translated subtitles.

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