{"id":849,"date":"2014-10-30T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2020-06-05T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:27:36","slug":"want-to-add-subtitles-to-your-youtube-video-with-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Use Youtube&#8217;s Auto-Caption for Subtitles"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kb2bzy4g-d6fa00946880596c83b87c1f31acbf5d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Don&#8217;t use Youtube&#8217;s &#8220;Auto-Caption&#8221; &#8211; it does a terrible job. Below is Youtube&#8217;s &#8220;translation&#8221; of spoken audio to auto-captions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lbtux-0d4cbd7567bc16321f27d917fbc0647b\">\n.flex_column.av-lbtux-0d4cbd7567bc16321f27d917fbc0647b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-lbtux-0d4cbd7567bc16321f27d917fbc0647b av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kb2c30qq-6db9dea2796b35a023a70193ce9dc568\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kb2c30qq-6db9dea2796b35a023a70193ce9dc568 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kb2c30qq-6db9dea2796b35a023a70193ce9dc568 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kb2c30qq-6db9dea2796b35a023a70193ce9dc568 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-850 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-850 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AuotCraptions.png\" alt='Excerpts from four videos showing terrible auto-generated closed captions. The closed captions read as follows: You have an amazing app idea and I&#039;ve tried everything to get release to the public you&#039;ve probably contacted developers who have called you several thousand dollars to make your African you have also tried to kill the app yourself for some tutorials about' title='AutoCraptions'  height=\"424\" width=\"560\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AuotCraptions.png 560w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AuotCraptions-422x320.png 422w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AuotCraptions-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AuotCraptions-468x354.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-hrw5d-92ab0a6b264bb089e2069bfbf3b25d7b\">\n.flex_column.av-hrw5d-92ab0a6b264bb089e2069bfbf3b25d7b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-hrw5d-92ab0a6b264bb089e2069bfbf3b25d7b av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_social_share  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kb2c099r-eb4c6cdf4b162ffeb0e742f22c0adcd3 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Youtube&#8217;s Auto-Captions are horrible. It should really be called Auto-Craption. It leaves out punctuation, turning everything into a run-on paragraph. Words and phrases it doesn&#8217;t understand are mistranslated, creating captions that, at best makes no sense. At its worst, you&#8217;ll be laughing at how horrible the captions are.<\/p>\n<p>Far better to just do Closed Captions for Youtube properly. The best part is the software\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0cost you a cent. You can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aegisub.org\">AegisSub<\/a>. It&#8217;s free, and works with OS X, including the newly released Yosemite.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty easy to use. Transcribe your audio, then set up timing so each\u00a0subtitle\u00a0appears when spoken. When you&#8217;re done, export the subtitles as a .srt (SubRip) file. 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