[Athen] Captioning YouTube Videos

Doug Hayman dhayman at uw.edu
Fri Apr 12 08:53:34 PDT 2019


Just took a look and there are under the Actions button drop-down choices
to download of .vtt, .srt, and .sbv.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:56 AM Sorensen, Neal B <neal.sorensen at mnsu.edu>
wrote:


> Alex,

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> Here are the steps from within YouTube’s creator studio. I tried to

> describe only keyboard navigable steps.

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> 1. Navigate to the video you would like to download captions from, and

> open that video.

> 2. Find the Subtitles/CC tab and open it.

> 3. Go to “Add new subtitles or CC” and then type English. I was not

> able to choose English without using the mouse, so I typed it and was able

> to access this menu.

> 4. Go to “Create new subtitles or CC”

> 5. Navigate to the Action button, open it, and navigate to Download.

> The download dialogue box will appear.

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> The only filetype that can be downloaded using this method is an SBV file,

> which I have never seen before. I think they used to do SRT files, but it

> seems the powers that be chose something else.

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> Hope this is useful.

>

> Neal Sorensen

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

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> *Subject:* [Athen] Captioning YouTube Videos

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> Hello List

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> I know that it used to be that you would have to download a caption file

> from YouTube, edit it and upload it to create accurate captions. It seems

> now that you can do it from within your YouTube account. Can anyone speak

> to the ease in doing it this way? Here’s the link:

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> http://ncdae.org/resources/cheatsheets/youtube.php

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> Being a screen reader user myself, I could not figure out how to do it

> entirely from the keyboard.

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> Thanks for your insights.

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