Calls to Action
- Make progress in creating high-quality captions
- Add reviewing and editing of automatic captions into your workflow
- Did you spot a video without captions? Ask for captions.
- Contact AI captioning services about:
- Caption length
- Line division
- Ability to add custom vocabulary
- Contact Google Accessibility: (Fill free to copy and paste the following.) “YouTube automatic captions rarely contain punctuation, sentences, and capitalization at the start of sentences. It makes the captions harder to read and understand. Please add this functionality.”
Resources
- Caption Guide
- Captioned videos: Side-by-side on captioning best practices
- Captioning Video FAQs
- Captioning Key Guide from DCMP
- Captions: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence
- Gallaudet research shows captions with punctuation leads to a better experience than without. [pdf]
- Why are Netflix’s Standards for Subtitles and Captions So High?
- Video: Homophones comparison of AI captions (Four videos of Meryl)
- Video: Line length and line division comparison
- W3C WAI Captions / Subtitles page
- Whisper AI transcription and translation page
- Choose “medium”
- Upload video or enter URL of video
- Select “transcript” or “translate” under “Task”
- Select “Submit”