Use automatic captioning

Captions are a peachy way to brand content accessible for viewers. YouTube can use speech recognition technology to automatically create captions for your videos.

Note: These automated captions are generated past auto learning algorithms, so the quality of the captions may vary. We encourage creators to add professional captions first. YouTube is constantly improving its speech recognition applied science. Nonetheless, automatic captions might misrepresent the spoken content due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise. You should always review automatic captions and edit any parts that haven't been properly transcribed.

Automatic captions on long-course videos and Shorts

Automatic captions are bachelor in Dutch, English, French, High german, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Nosotros encourage creators to add professional captions first. If automatic captions are bachelor, they'll automatically exist published on the video. Automatic captions may not be fix at the time that you lot upload a video. Processing fourth dimension depends on the complexity of the video's audio.

YouTube is constantly improving its oral communication recognition technology. Just automatic captions might misrepresent the spoken content due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise. Ever review automatic captions and edit whatever parts that haven't been properly transcribed.

Here'due south how you tin 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. Nether "Subtitles", click More than  next to the subtitles you want to edit.
  5. Review automated captions and edit or remove any parts that oasis't been properly transcribed.

Troubleshoot automatic captions issues

If your video doesn't generate automatic captions, information technology could be due to one or more of the following reasons:

  • The captions aren't available yet due to processing complex audio in the video.
  • Automated 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.
  • There's a long flow of silence at the commencement of the video.
  • There are multiple speakers whose oral communication overlaps.

Automatic captions on live-stream videos

Note: Automatic captions for alive streams are available in English only. The automatic captions can only exist turned on for individual live 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 person captions unavailable. Nosotros encourage creators to use professional captions get-go. Learn well-nigh live caption requirements.

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

Set up live automatic captions

Here'south how you tin turn on live automatic captions:

  1. Go to YouTube.
  2. From the top right, click Create and thenGet alive.
  3. Choose Stream  from the left-manus menu.
  4. Within stream settings, turn on Airtight captions.
  5. Choose "Automatic captions" every bit the captions source.
  6. Select your video language.

Troubleshoot live automatic captions

If the alive stream doesn't prove automatic captions, it could be due to one or more of the post-obit reasons:

  • The characteristic hasn't been turned on for the channel, as we're slowly rolling out to channels with more than ane,000 subscribers.
  • Channel is streaming in ultra low or low latency (such every bit a mobile live stream). Live automated captions are only bachelor 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.
  • In that location are multiple speakers whose speech overlaps or multiple languages at the aforementioned time.

Note: To foreclose automatic captions from beingness shown on your live streams get in touch on with the Creator Support Team.

Automatic captioning advanced settings

Potentially inappropriate words in automatic captions

The "Don't bear witness potentially inappropriate words" setting in YouTube Studio replaces potentially inappropriate words with an open subclass, two underscores, and a airtight bracket "[ __ ]" by default in automatic captions. This setting doesn't affect whatsoever sound tracks or manually edited captions. It's intended to help prevent potentially inappropriate words mistakenly actualization in automatic captions. It as well doesn't affect your video's monetization status.

Automatic captioning applies to uploaded videos and alive streams.

We all the same encourage creators to review all their automatically generated captions as we continue to improve our speech recognition software and reduce automatic captioning errors.

Here's 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 menu, select Settings .
  3. Select Channeland then Avant-garde settings.
  4. Nether the "Auto-generated captions," deselect Don't show potentially inappropriate words.

Note: This setting is bachelor for automated captions and auto-translated subtitles.

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