[Athen] youtube captioning question

[Howard Kramer]

FYi to everyone - the video was finally captioned. I guess it just takes a
few days for turn around.

-Howard


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org> wrote:


> 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

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

>>

>> 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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