
These channels are streaming at "normal latency" with professional captions unavailable. Note: Automatic captions for live streams are available in English only. The automatic captions can only be turned on for individual live streams, not the entire channel.Īutomatic captions for live streams are currently being rolled out to English channels. There are multiple speakers whose speech overlaps or multiple languages at the same time.There’s a long period of silence at the beginning of the video.The video has poor sound quality or YouTube doesn't recognize the speech.


Under “Subtitles”, click More next to the subtitles you want to edit.Click the video you want to add captions or subtitles to.Here's how you can review automatic captions and make changes, if needed: Always review automatic captions and edit any parts that haven't been properly transcribed. But automatic captions might misrepresent the spoken content due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise. YouTube is constantly improving its speech recognition technology. Processing time depends on the complexity of the video's audio. Automatic captions may not be ready at the time that you upload a video. If automatic captions are available, they'll automatically be published on the video. We encourage creators to add professional captions first. Automatic captions are available in Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
