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This is Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software with a mini-lesson called
Caption This - Create your own Closed Captions to be sure that what they read is what you said.
I'm going to do this with my latest video, Out of Notes Part 4 - Linked Collections.
If we turn on the Automatic captions, this is what we'll see:
((This is Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software with a Mini-Lesson called Out of Notes Part 4.))
Clearly the Automatic captions do not match the words that were said, but it is even worse
but it is even worse when you translate because it tries
to translate those automatic captions... this time in Spanish.
((This is Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software with a Mini-Lesson called Out of Notes Part 4.))
To create our own closed captions, we need to make a transcript.
Just go through the video as many times as you want,
listening to the audio and writing down exactly what it says.
And then you need to create an .SRT file. I have a template on my Mini-Lesson.
It has all the times of when they start and stop.
We go into.. on Youtube, we go into the Closed Captions,
and from in here we're going to import the .SRT file.
Find the .SRT file with all the timings and all the words matched up.
When we import that, it's going to associate that with a separate track then the Automatic captions.
So, there they are. Now, we have to remember
to go and turn off the Automatic captions, so we'll disable those.
I should note that you could actually modify the Automatic captions,
but it's actually harder to do that.
Let's try again with the corrected captions in English.
((This is Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software with a Mini-Lesson called Out of Notes Part 4.))
And that way we have the correct captions in English, but now when we choose Spanish,
we'll also see that the translation is far closer.
((This is Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software with a Mini-Lesson called Out of Notes Part 4.))
That's how simple it is to create closed captions so that you have
accurate English and foreign language translations. Thank you.