1. Closed Captioning with YouTube
Kevin Erler, PhD

2. Caption Support YouTube provides 2 options for captions:
Video owner can upload a caption file, or
Auto-Captions (owner can disable)
Most video owners do not add their own caption files, so you are often left with either Auto-Captions or no captions (if Auto- Captions have been disabled).

3. YouTube Auto-Captions
A speech-recognition option provided by YouTube
Issue here is quality
Can be embarrassing
Or just comedic #CaptionFail
Example:
About Auto-Captions:

4. Non-Auto-Caption Options
Upload a caption file to the video
Not helpful if you do not own the account
Rip the video, caption it, repost it.
Creates copyright issues
A bit more technically involved
Use the CaptionSync SmartPlayer
Video must be embeddable and public
Requires original video to stick around

5. How does the Smart Player Work?
Video is embedded from YouTube (not copied)
Smart Player puts a frame around the video
Pulls caption data from your CaptionSync account
Displays interactive transcript using this data
Displays captions using this data
Provides numerous other features using the caption data
Example:

6. CaptionSync Smart Player
Text search
Dictionary/
Wiki lookup
Interactive
Transcript
Traditional captions

7. Extra Features of Smart Player
Allows viewers to see the entire text jump to any point.
Text search feature.
Dictionary lookup.
Wikipedia lookup.
Automatic SEO using the caption data.
Clip and share.
Ability to embed player in your own website.

8. How to Do It Get the URL of the YouTube video
Submit to CaptionSync via URL
Go to the Status page
Generate the SmartPlayer URL

9. Issues to Watch for Video needs to be embeddable Video must be public
Use Video URLs (not playlists, user pages or embed codes)

10. Help Me…
Smart Player Tutorial: Player
Using Smart Player with YouTube: us/articles/ YouTube-Videos-and-the-Smart-Player
YouTube Auto-Captions:
Our Support Experts:

11. www.automaticsync.com | 877-278-7962