Wow, this is something that I've wanted to fix for a long time. I wanted to make it possible to display subtitles in many languages on my YouTube videos. Andreas Spiess (the guy with the Swiss accent) just showed me how to do it. YouTube never really explained this very well. But Andreas did. This is how it works:
I just tell YouTube to display English language subtitles. People can watch these English subtitles, or turn them off. But here is the cool part: People who want to see the subtitles in a language other than English, just go to AutoGenerate Subtitles, and select the language they want. Apparently YouTube just has an AI translate to the target language from the original English transcript. BOOM! Roberto es tu tio!
Here is what you have to do:
1) After you turn on the video, go to Subtitles/CC and turn it on.
2) Click on English (auto translate)
3) Then click on the arrow and select the language you want to see the subtitles in.
Once you do this and select your language, all you will have to do in future viewing sessions is to hit the CC button on the YouTube video toolbar. Subtitles in your language should then appear.
You may have to play with this a bit, but it works, and this should make a big difference for many viewers. If you run into trouble, watch Andreas's video (above) or send me an e-mail.
I need to go through all of my videos and set the original language to English. For some reason YouTube had it set to Azerbaijani. I don't know why, but I will --starting from the most recent -- go back and change the original language of the videos to English. I have changed the settings so that all future videos should generate the English subtitles automatically.
I tested the mechanism in Spanish and in Urdu. It works. Below you can see the Urdu subtitles on a recent video:
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Works for me for Greek, tnx 73
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