Thank you Norman for all the work you put into helping the knitting community! 🌞
2 months ago
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You definitely do enough already! You are very generous with your time and energy, and it shows. So many of us - myself included - really appreciate that.
2 months ago | 19
As a HOH person I appreciate good captions explaining what is going on. Love your videos. ❤️👏
2 months ago
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Thank you Norman, for all your wonderful videos. I have learned so much from you ! My knitting still has a long way to go, but now I have nice, straight edges ! Looking forward to ordering a circular set. Watching your circular set comparison, I was able to pick the KnitPro as being the best for my needs. Happy knitting !!
2 months ago
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you are so sweet norman. i hope people haven’t been unkind to you for this! p.s- what might help people is to go to the ‘show transcript’ underneath the video and then copy&paste into google translate👍🏻
2 months ago
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Danke, dass du dich immer bemühst, sowas besser zu machen. Auch wenn's nich geht. Ich wäre schon froh, wenn es überall englische Untertitel gäbe, weil manche Akzente/Dialekte für mich auch im Englischen schwer zu verstehen sind. Du meckerst nich, sondern nutzt diesen Platz für sowas oder um dich für eine bessere Kommunikation der Community untereinander einzusetzen. Das verdient Lob :)
2 months ago
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Thank you for your hard work! I'm a recent addition to your fandom, and I usually watch knitting videos at work, while I wait for invoices to pour in, so I really appreciate the close captions 🤭 Cheers from Hungary! ❤
2 months ago
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Lieber Norman, du tust so viel für die Strickies auf der ganzen Welt. Konzentriere dich bitte weiter auf deine tollen Videos. Dein Englisch ist sehr verständlich, wir bekommen das schon hin😘
2 months ago
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Thank you Norman for all your good work and tips for better knitting. You've been a great help over thd years!!
2 months ago
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Very useful, thank you. I have hereditary hearing loss, and always have the captions enabled.
2 months ago
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Hi Norman! I upload occasionally and unless they changed it the setting is actually all the way back in settings where you uploaded cover photos etc. it’s not an option on the uploaded video from a viewing screen. It’s way in the back end. YouTube did have the option for you to put in your native language subtitles and then turn on auto translate for insert language here You definitely aren’t obligated and we appreciate the work you’re already doing! I find your channel and website a tool I reference often. Thank you so much for what you do!
2 months ago | 0
Mein Englisch ist nicht das beste, aber deine Videos verstehe ich problemlos. Immer super erklärt,ich habe schon viel gelernt.
2 months ago
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I think it would be cool if viewers were able to add subtitles to a video on their own, but youtube removed that feature a while ago. That could have been helpful to have people volunteer
2 months ago
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Hi Norman! If you want, I could translate the subtitles into German (my native) and possibly Spanish for you! I have a degree in translation and I'd be happy to do this in my free time. :) You've done wonderful things for the community and I've learned so so so much from your videos, so if I can help contribute, I would! :)
2 months ago | 5
NimbleNeedles
FIY: There is no button where I can activate Spanish/French/Indonesian/etc subtitles.
Recently, I received quite a couple of questions asking me to switch on subtitles for a certain language. As much as I would like to do that, I want you to know that such a button simply does not exist. If a translation is available for any given video, then this always has been added manually. For me, this would mean I would have to hire an experienced knitting translator. Currently, even a good video earns around $300 USD. The harsh truth is that this is not even enough to pay my own bills, let alone a translator.
That being said, I manually add closed captions to all my videos. It often takes more than an hour, sometimes two, to write them but I do this as a courtesy to all those who cannot or don't want to listen to audio. A lot of subscribers who are not as proficient in English as they would like to be, find these subtitles also very helpful.
If you click on the settings button, you can auto-translate these subtitles into your language (well most at any rate). They will certainly not be perfect but mostly they get the meaning across.
On top of that, YouTube has recently started to experiment with auto-dubbing. If you click on the "Audio track" submenu, you can switch between different artificial narrators in a handful of languages. This feature is only available for very recent uploads. Some find it helpful, others don't but the settings button allows you to switch back to the original as well.
And you can also use it to adjust the playback speed. So if you feel I am going too fast, simply set the speed to 25% and happily knit along.
Hope this clarifies things.
Norman
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