However, you choose to get your caption file, uploading it to YouTube is a breeze. This is highly recommended if you need to caption YouTube videos at scale, since you can automate your captioning workflow. The fastest, easiest way to get accurate captions is to hire a professional closed captioning company. YouTube adds automatic captions to your videos, however, auto-captions average 60-70% accuracy - or worse when there is poor audio quality, background noise or music, multiple overlapping speakers, or speakers with accents or poor articulation.įrom the rough transcript that YouTube creates, you can create your own captions the DIY way or enlist the help of your viewers for crowdsourced captions and subtitle translation. They’ve released several tools to make that a reality. You can also choose to export your video with the newly added subtitle and post it on social media, YouTube or download it locally to your computer. YouTube encourages content creators to add closed captions and multilingual subtitles to their videos so that they can reach a wider audience.

How to Add Closed Captions & Subtitles to YouTube Videos

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