[Athen] Vanishing CC button on some YouTube videos

[Doug Hayman]

Thanks Jess,

Took a look an one of my personal/unlisted ones that YouTube had added
auto-generated captions to and removed those.  Looked at it before and
after.  Had CC button prior to my edit; no longer has a CC button.  Now to
see if they re-analyze the video and add it back in.

The UW one we looked at was uploaded over a year ago but perhaps they did
what you suggested, removed the faulty, auto-generated captions.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Jess Thompson <jess.thompson at sbctc.edu>
wrote:


> Hi Doug,

>

>

> Perhaps they've removed the auto-captions. I just tested that on my

> channel and the CC button disappears (closed captions show as 'off' in the

> Settings, however) if I don't have another caption file uploaded.

>

>

> They may have realized the machine-generated captions are inaccurate, so

> opted to remove them entirely rather than fix them.

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Jess

>

>

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> on

> behalf of Doug Hayman <dhayman at uw.edu>

> *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:14:10 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* [Athen] Vanishing CC button on some YouTube videos

>

> A while back there were a number of us that were finding YouTube videos

> lacking the CC button and at that time it turned out to be a recent YouTube

> update broke things on their end.

>

> Today we noticed a video lacked the CC button to toggle on/off captions

> and yet other videos on that same channel had CC button in the player along

> with either full on English captions or the auto-generated ones.

>

> Is there a way that a channel owner can choose to turn off or remove the

> CC button?  If so, where does one do that?

>

> If not a channel owner choice, has anyone figured out why the CC button is

> sometimes absent?

>

> Looking at my personal YouTube page I see one video I made as a

> mini-tutorial for a friend learning GarageBand software lacks a CC button

> but is mostly silent or showing tweaks of music.  It has no spoken section

> to get swept up by automated speech recognition to create bad captions.

>

> The video we were looking into here at UW does start with a bit of music

> only but does eventually have spoken English.  Wondered if X-amount of

> music intro triggers the CC button to go away?

>

> Anyone have some suggestions around this anomaly we can then take into a

> conversation with the channel owner?

>

> Thanks,

>

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