While we've been working to offer captions in as many different
languages as possible, there are often only a few translated versions
available. To solve this problem, we added a new "auto translate"
feature. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any
caption tracks you upload.
When you add captions to your video in one language, it will be
readable to almost everybody through auto translate. While machine
translation is not perfect, we hope this will help creators to offer
you a better understanding of their videos.
and some additional instructions on how to use auto translate:
To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over
the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the
CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the
"Translate..." button and then you will be given a choice of many
different languages.
> While we've been working to offer captions in as many different
> languages as possible, there are often only a few translated versions
> available. To solve this problem, we added a new "auto translate"
> feature. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any
> caption tracks you upload.
> When you add captions to your video in one language, it will be
> readable to almost everybody through auto translate. While machine
> translation is not perfect, we hope this will help creators to offer
> you a better understanding of their videos.
Bit out of the way isn't it? Wouldn't it be better to have a list of
languages instead of going through the process of arrow, translate,
translate from and to.
> and some additional instructions on how to use auto translate:
> To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over
> the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the
> CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the
> "Translate..." button and then you will be given a choice of many
> different languages.
> > While we've been working to offer captions in as many different
> > languages as possible, there are often only a few translated versions
> > available. To solve this problem, we added a new "auto translate"
> > feature. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any
> > caption tracks you upload.
> > When you add captions to your video in one language, it will be
> > readable to almost everybody through auto translate. While machine
> > translation is not perfect, we hope this will help creators to offer
> > you a better understanding of their videos.
There are over 30 available target languages, chrisybwell, multiplied
by the number of available source languages (i.e. the number of
subtitle files that have been uploaded) -- could be a long list.
Being able to select a source language is actually sensible: if you
have a video with English and Italian captions, and you want Spanish
captions, it makes sense to translate from Italian, not English,
because Italian is more closely related to Spanish.
As machine translations go, it's not bad. But I hope you add to the
dictionaries -- one unexpected omission I found in the English-to-
German translation is "cute". Ironic, given the number of people who
log on to YouTube to see "cute kitty" videos.
> There are over 30 available target languages, chrisybwell, multiplied
> by the number of available source languages (i.e. the number of
> subtitle files that have been uploaded) -- could be a long list.
> Being able to select a source language is actually sensible: if you
> have a video with English and Italian captions, and you want Spanish
> captions, it makes sense to translate from Italian, not English,
> because Italian is more closely related to Spanish.
> As machine translations go, it's not bad. But I hope you add to the
> dictionaries -- one unexpected omission I found in the English-to-
> German translation is "cute". Ironic, given the number of people who
> log on to YouTube to see "cute kitty" videos.
