{"id":8853,"date":"2022-05-03T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2022-05-04T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:49:05","slug":"alternate-language-subtitles-for-youtube-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=8853","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Language Subtitles for YouTube videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am writing a post on translating the first eBook into Chinese and so started to use the auto-generated English Subtitles from the YouTube Shorts videos and downloaded the timed captions text in .sbv format, that I pasted into a Google Spreadsheet and used formula =GoogleTranslate (Text, Source language, Destination language) <\/strong>and setup a Spreadsheet<\/span><\/a> to do this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was pleased with the result and was able to quickly, through a multi-step process create timed translations that I could upload into the video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would add a new language (Chinese) then download the english transcript and open it in Notepad++ and then paste it in the Google Sheets spreadsheet where the lines would auto translate, then I’d take the column with timestamps and translated text & paste it back into Notepad++, where I would save the file and then upload that file for the new language I’d created in YouTube Studio in contents section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a particularly onerous process but long and slightly tedious, so I’d do it in batches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I looked at the numbers and there are 64 videos 62 YouTube Shorts to add languages to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dutch French German Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish Vietnamese Turkish Arabic Swahili Khmer, I already have Chinese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was taking, on average about 3 minutes to add the 14 languages to a YouTube Shorts video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easier method in YouTube <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I then thought I’d do a bit of research (belatedly) and found that there is a method to auto-create the translations. It will not do it with YouTube auto-generated subtitles, but you can download that file and upload it again and then it will do the auto-generation into the languages of your choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n