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.
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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