How to translate Youtube videos ?

Topics:

• How to add automatic translated subtitles from YouTube in my video? 
• How to translate subtitles from a YouTube video manually?
• How to transcribe a YouTube video? 
• How to translate YouTube subtitles with “Google Translator”?
• How to translate someone else's YouTube videos?
• How to translate YouTube videos without CC?
• How to translate Youtube videos on iPhone?
• Is there an application to translate YouTube videos?
• How to translate YouTube videos to text?
• Do you get paid to translate YouTube videos?
• Where can I hire an expert to translate my videos? 
• How much will it cost to add subtitles to my video?

There are many youtubers who actually realize how important the translations of their videos are to improve their ranking and their views. You can also do it even if you don't know another language.

There are several ways to do it, the easiest way to do it is by adding automatic subtitles of YouTube in the available languages, another way is to translate your YouTube video manually (with tools), you can even do it, if it is someone else's video. I show you below:

How to add automatic subtitles translated from YouTube into my video? 

If youtube automatic subtitles are available, they will be published immediately in the video. However, YouTube says that, subtitles may not be ready when you upload a video. The processing time depends on the complexity of the audio. So to make our viewers see the option to translate the video in their language we must follow these steps:

1. Go to the "Video Manager" in your YouTube account. To do this, click in the upper right corner> Creator Studio> Video Manager> Videos.
2. Next to the video to which we want to add subtitles, we will click on the drop-down menu next to the Edit button.
3. Select Subtitles.
   
4. If automatic subtitles are available, you will see Language (automatic) in the section "Posted" to the right of the video.
   
5. Check out the automatic subtitles and follow the instructions for editing or removing parts that have not been transcribed correctly.
   

And that is all, it's simple but youtube clearly states is possible that the automatic captions do not represent correctly the voice content for various reasons such as pronunciation, accents of each person, dialects, etc. Therefore it is recommended to edit automatic subtitles in your own language. Although it seems to me that for other languages ​​there may continue to be misunderstandings. 

That is why we can use the following tools to translate our videos with a slightly better context for our foreign viewers.

How to translate subtitles of a YouTube video manually?

We can also add subtitles ourselves, if we want better subtitles than automatic YouTube subtitles. But what happens if we don't know any other language? Let's not let this be an impediment, let's make the subtitles of your video in multiple languages!

Your viewer will be able to understand better what you are talking about, than only using automatic YouTube subtitles. Although there may still be certain misunderstandings in the context because we will be using an online translator because we do not know those other languages. But even so it will be possible for our viewers to understand very well what we are talking about.

- So what we are going to do is:

1. Transcribe the video (for this we have a YouTube tool)
2. Translate subtitles with Google Translate (Very simple with Google Translate)
3. Finally we add them to the video.

- How to transcribe a youtube video? 

1.     In youtube, in the drop-down menu we go to “Youtube Studio”. 

2.     Then in the side menu we go to "Video Manager"  and choose the video we want to transcribe in "edit". 

3.     The next thing is to click on the “subtitles / cc” menu, now choose your language.

4.     And click on "add" subtitles.

5.     Then click on “create new subtitles”. Here you can transcribe the entire video, at the correct time with the words that are spoken.

Important Tip: on the buttons above, click on auto-translate, so that Youtube writes the entire video for you, and you only have to give the correct context to the conversations. That will save you a lot of time. It is necessary that the language of the transcript be the same language as the video. 

The auto-translate button does not always appear due to the following problems:

• Subtitles are not yet available due to complex audio processing in the video.
• The language in the video is not yet compatible with automatic subtitles.
• The video is too long.
• The video has poor sound quality or contains a speech that YouTube does not recognize.
• There is a long period of silence at the beginning of the video.
• There are several speakers whose speech overlaps.

In any case it is better that we write it ourselves, if this tool does not appear, do not worry, because in some cases the auto-translate tool is very wrong.

- How to translate  youtube subtitles with "Google Translator"?

1.     Once the entire video has been transcribed in the original language, we return to the subtitles menu in (YouTube Creator Studio).

2.     And we add the language in which we want to translate. It is very important that the language of the video on the settings is the same as that of the transcription (subtitles) we did. 

3.     Then we will see the same console to transcribe, but this time with the original language and the option to transcribe to the new language.

4.     Now we just have to click on “translate automatically” (Auto-translate) and correct the words that are out of context.

But as we did the transcription in the original language correctly, it is very likely that in automatic translations there is almost nothing wrong.

In this way we will have subtitles with much more sense, and to ensure that they have the correct context, when putting it in the translator, we must revert the language  to see if what we translate means the same in our language. Finally we save the changes and foreign language people will be able to understand us. We can translate in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and more, completely free.

How to translate other people's YouTube videos?

1. If the video has the subtitles icon, activate it.
2. And in the video settings icon, click on “subtitles / cc”, if it is available to contribute subtitles for this video, the option to add subtittles / cc will appear, click. 
   
3. From there youtube will direct you to the creator studio where you must select the language you want to translate, 
   
4. There will appear the console to translate the video with the main language already written with timings, if the video already had subtitles in the original language, you will only have to translate it directly into the console, A trick is to copy and paste it into Google translator and paste it back into the console part by part, in the end we just check that the context is correct. This is saved in your account as a draft automatically, if you want to finish it later, you can also do a part and send it for someone else from the YouTube community to finish it, at the end click on “submit contribution” and everything is ready, 
   
5. now you just have to wait for the owner of the channel to accept it. If you want to be given credit for subtitles, just check the “credit my contribution” box,  your profile name may appear in the video. 

If the video does not have subtitles in the original language, we may have to transcribe the video in the original language or we will have to correct many errors when translating.

How to translate YouTube videos without CC?

In this case, if the video is from someone else and does not have the option to add subtitles, you must download the video and upload it to YouTube on your channel or ask the owner of the channel, by message, to activate the option of his videos so that the community can add subtitles. (If the video does have the option of adding subtitles, go to the section above on how to translate other people's YouTube videos)

If the video is yours, just follow the steps above on “how to translate subtitles from a youtube video manually ” and we must start with the transcription, not necessarily from scratch, because we can activate the auto-translate tool that - fill in everything we talk about - and just edit the context easily. (in case auto-translate is available ).

How are YouTube videos translated on iPhone?
 

1. Open your youtube application on your device.
2. Find a video you want to watch. 
3. Look in the upper right corner of your screen.
   
4. Now, if the video has subtitles available, you can click on “CC” to activate them. 
   

Is there an application to translate YouTube videos?

To translate YouTube videos, there are some extensions with which you can add subtitles in Google Chrome in your language.

1.    Two Captions for YouTube & Netflix

2.    Wisesub

3.    Unitrans

How to translate YouTube videos to text?

There is an online application that we can work with, it is called, “OTranscribe”, On this page, we can enter the link of the video that we want to translate to text and start writing by hand, in a simpler way, so as not to be changing the window to pause the video, in the end what we will do is copy all the text and Paste it in word or google docs. 

If we want to translate it, it just have to go through Google translator, to translate the document or text. We must ensure that we have correct punctuation marks such as commas, because the translator uses them to understand the context.

If what we want is to make subtitles, you can see the steps above on how to translate subtitles from a YouTube video manually?

Do you get paid to translate YouTube videos?

        

Yes, you get paid, there are companies that are translation firms that offer services to companies such as YouTube, Alibaba, Tripadvisor, Amazon Path, Netflix among many others. 

The good side is that translation will not end so soon, and I do not believe that artificial intelligence can understand contexts and idioms of language that continually evolve, at least, not in this decade. 

It is a tiring job, but while you get experience, things get easier and more doors open to you, like everything else in life. 

To start, all you have to do is to know a language, then enter a request to dozens of web pages that offer these jobs online, you can go google “make money with translations” they (those platforms)  will test you and ask for resumes, in some cases It will be simple, in others very difficult to enter.

And the other option is to start sending emails and talking on the phone offering your services to people of your language as a freelancer. 

Where can I hire an expert to translate my videos? 

There are online platforms where we can hire a professional to translate our videos. There are many Freelancer platforms and it can be very overwhelming to find a good translator among many.

            You can ask for advice and quote translations, transcriptions and subtitles with-- -Valeria Pancardo-, she is a person who has put her effort in the translation of videos for years, and has a portfolio of clients that prove it. You can contact her on her website Valeria-Pancardo and ask if she has available the translation of your language and its price for your specific videos. 

How much will it cost to add subtitles to my video?

Adding subtitles to our videos through a professional, who will give you the right context, due to your knowledge in foreign languages, will cost around $ 5 per minute on average. From what I've seen on internet sites.