This begs the question, “what is the best and most convenient option to add subtitles to YouTube videos?” How to add closed captions and subtitles to YouTube with the Rev YouTube integration With all of these benefits, adding subtitles & closed captions to your YouTube videos is a no-brainer. Improving video accessibility for everyone, especially deaf and hard of hearing individuals.Improving video SEO by providing more context to video search algorithms, and thus more rankings on YouTube video search.Allowing individuals to consume your content in atmospheres that call for “silencing devices” (e.g.Providing a way for the hearing impaired to enjoy your content.Helping you grow your channel & reach a global audience ( subtitle services translate your videos).Closed captions and subtitles improve your content by: Keeping up with our Japanese partners just got that much easier.It’s no secret that adding closed captions and subtitles to your YouTube videos gives you a competitive advantage over other YouTubers. Here’s an example of how it works from our partner ANN News Channel:Īnd if you really want to get multilingual with YouTube videos, when these auto-captions are combined with our auto-translate feature, you’ll be able to generate subtitles into more than 50 languages. We’re also working closely with the the Japan Federation for the Deaf to improve this technology and make it more useful. Now on any video with a clear Japanese speech track, a red “CC” button will appear at the bottom of the player, where you can click it to generate automatic captions from the speech. We’re eager to see more videos captioned in more languages, so we just rolled out this feature to a new language - Japanese. Last March we offered everyone the ability to automatically create captions on your videos, and the response has been exciting to see: auto-captions have been generated on nearly 40 million videos, and the number of manually-created caption tracks has more than tripled. Cross Posted from the YouTube Japan Blog.

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