 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. For today's video, I'm going to be showing how to translate automatically your YouTube captions into additional languages and then maybe edit those a little bit to improve upon them. Now, I always make this disclaimer whenever I'm recording videos about YouTube functionalities that they are liable to change at any moment in time and without notice. So this information is accurate only at the time I'm recording this video. Now, is that out of the way? YouTube captions can be automatically translated where there is an existing translation, an existing and closed caption file. So I'm going to demonstrate this by firstly, let's take a video that I haven't captioned, right? I uploaded yesterday this little video of some ibexes, ibeces I think is actually the correct translation, but never and you know, they're sitting feeding on grass. There's no dialogue here, so there's nothing to caption. So if I click into subtitles, you're going to see that there is automatic captions, right? So I can go into settings, go into subtitles and there is English auto-generated captions. I didn't do anything to get to this point. Now, this is obviously a bit of a ridiculous example because there is nothing to caption, but when you upload a video to YouTube, YouTube's going to automatically caption it, but those are machine-generated captions. Now watch what I can't do. Let's say I want to add a translation in, I want to add Hebrew. So I scroll down and add language in subtitles and I click on Hebrew and it'll show you in a second you can add different titles and descriptions for specific languages, which is very useful. You can also add subtitles, so watch what happens when I click on the subtitles, add subtitles. Autotranslate is grayed out and the reason this is can be seen when you click on the question mark. To use autotranslate, publish captions in the original video language first. Autotranslate is unavailable for auto-generated captions. What this means? I've set the video language to English and it's auto-generated English captions. You can't do two automatic captions. You can't automatically get captions in the first language and then use those auto-generated captions to auto-generate foreign language captions. I'm guessing because two machine algorithm-based processes would make the ultimate end subtitles too unreliable. Now, let's compare and contrast. I'm going to go back in my YouTube studio to a video I have subtitled. A few days ago, I uploaded a video from the Jerusalem Wine Festival and if we click into my subtitles tab, have a look at what there is. There is our automatic file that was added like it was the last video, but I also added English subtitles and the way I did this was I edited the autotranslated files. I fixed pretty much everything that needed to be fixed and now we have two autotranslated files. Now, what we can do because we have one autotranslated files is I can add subtitles in another language. In this case, I've already added them in Hebrew because this was an event in Israel so it makes sense, but if I click on subtitles as opposed to the previous video, we now have a autotranslate button in Hebrew. What I can do here is click on autotranslate and voila, we have our translations in Hebrew, autotranslated. Now, the very cool thing about this is that I can click publish and just use the autotranslated version or if I know the second language well enough, I can edit what the machine translated to improve its accuracy. One more example, not that it's any different, but let's say another language I know a little bit, let's say, let's say French, right? So I add French as a video subtitle language. I can add a title and description for the French version. It shows you your original one alongside it, which is super useful. And if I click on subtitles, I have the option of uploading a French subtitle file with or without timing. I can type the French subtitles manually or I can use, again, autotranslate. And if I click autotranslate, here we go. Instantaneously, we've autotranslated the original subtitles. Salut les gars, bienvenue sur ma chaîne YouTube, c'est Daniel Rosil. That was my attempt at remembering why high school French, but you got the idea. So we've got our subtitles here and I could go, if I knew French well enough and I don't, I could go in here and fix up any, you know, any problems. And so that makes it a very efficient process. If I wanted to delete anything, they're saved now as drafts are not live there. And that is how it's done. I hope this has been useful. This is a great feature. If you are looking to make your videos, if you're going to the trouble of subtitling your videos into one language and you know that there is an obvious second or third language that would help to have captions in, you can use autotranslate to either just use that or to use it as a kind of very good first draft to get yourself, to get more captions rolled out more quickly and to make your videos accessible also to people who speak other languages. Hope that video is useful. Thank you guys for watching. More videos from me will be coming to this YouTube channel soon.