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2:35 with Aisha Blake

Though hearing impairment can be seen as less of a barrier to web content, it definitely presents its own challenges. In this video, we’ll add transcripts to audio and video content and learn about ways to caption video.

Though hearing impairment is sometimes seen as less of a barrier to web content, 0:00
it definitely presents its own challenges. 0:05
In this video, we'll learn how to add transcripts to video content. 0:08
YouTube has a handy list of instructions for adding subtitles and 0:12
closed captioning to YouTube videos. 0:15
You'll find a link to it in the notes. 0:17
You'll want to navigate to your Creator Studio and select a video. 0:20
Within its menu, choose Subtitles & CC. 0:26
At this point, we need to choose a language. 0:32
Personally, the only language I speak fluently is English. 0:34
So that's what I'll choose. 0:39
I'll also go ahead and make it the default language for new uploads. 0:41
I'll finish up by hitting Set Language. 0:47
Now that the menu's loaded up, we'll go to Add new subtitles or 0:50
CC and choose our language, in my case, English. 0:54
At this point we've got a few options. 1:01
If you've already captioned the video elsewhere, you can upload that file here, 1:04
and call it a day. 1:07
If you have a transcription, and would like to try to match up the words with 1:09
the correct times, choose Transcribe and auto-sync. 1:12
The last option, Buy Subtitles/CC or translation is available in 1:17
case you want to employ professional services to caption your videos. 1:22
The option we're going to try out today is Create new subtitles or CC. 1:28
It takes some practice to get the timing just right, but 1:34
we can add subtitles line by line in this little editor. 1:37
By default, the video will pause if we start typing in the new caption area. 1:40
You can change the position of the red line below the video to 1:51
navigate through based on sound levels. 1:55
[SOUND] 2:04
Once you're finished, go ahead and 2:15
hit the Publish button. 2:18
You've got a video with brand new captions. 2:20
To check to make sure everything is timed properly, 2:22
you'll need to activate captions from within the video player. 2:25