[Athen] youtube captioning question

[Howard Kramer]

Doug,

I haven't tried that yet - I'll give it a shot.

-Howard


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>wrote:


> Howard,

>

> I don't get why they'd want/have a "no captioning even if you'd want it as

> a viewer" setting.  Makes no sense.

>

> We'd seen the same for one of the upper-level UW youtube pages where it

> appeared that it had been toggled off and couldn't be turned on by the user.

>

> If you go into your video channel and pick that video then start the

> process of editing/creating captions does it then make your automatic one?

>

>

>

>

> Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>

> Senior Computer Specialist

> DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology)

> UW Technology Services

> Box 354842

> Seattle, WA 98195

> (206) 221-4165

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>

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Howard Kramer wrote:

>

>  Thanks Doug. I made that change. So far I don't see any changes in the

>> captioning options but we'll see.

>>

>> Seems like you also don't have the choice for requesting automatic

>> captioning on other videos. For example, the clip on David Letterman's

>> retirement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5sVI_-LRCI) doesn't have

>> captioning and there's no option - as far as I can see - to add them. So

>> it

>> seems like there's been some type of change in policy/setup regarding

>> auto-captions on YouTube but no announcement or information about it

>> anywhere.

>>

>> Regards,

>> Howard

>>

>>

>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>

>> wrote:

>>

>>  Howard,

>>>

>>> Man, I had to look for a while because they don't make finding the toggle

>>> very easy.  Perhaps this isn't the one you're looking for but when logged

>>> on to your youtube account go to:

>>>

>>> www.youtube.com/account_playback

>>>

>>> then click the "playback" choice under Account Settings menu

>>>

>>> and then on that page are some checkboxes for Captions.  Perhaps that

>>> will

>>> trigger it to do the automatic captioning.

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>

>>> Senior Computer Specialist

>>> DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology)

>>> UW Technology Services

>>> Box 354842

>>> Seattle, WA 98195

>>> (206) 221-4165

>>> http://www.washington.edu/doit

>>>

>>>

>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Howard Kramer wrote:

>>>

>>>  Does anyone know if youtube autocaptions has changed? I uploaded a short

>>>

>>>> video to my account but the only option I see is to do manual captions

>>>> (with an amara-like tool) or to upload a transcript for syncing. I

>>>> thought

>>>> the captioning might be done automatically but the video has been up

>>>> for a

>>>> couple of days and no captioning has appeared. Any help on this would be

>>>> appreciated.

>>>>

>>>> -Howard

>>>>

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