How to Translate YouTube Videos Without Subtitles Using Chrome's Live Caption This article explains how to display and translate subtitles for YouTube videos that lack automatic subtitles, using Google Chrome's Live Caption feature.

This YouTube video has no captions, so I can't translate it!

When watching YouTube videos, the caption translation feature is incredibly useful.

YouTube has a feature that automatically generates captions from audio, and it also allows for caption translation.

However, there are many YouTube videos that lack captions, making translation unavailable.

In such cases, it's highly recommended to use Google Chrome's Live Caption feature!

Google Chrome comes with a built-in feature that transcribes the content of playing videos and generates automatic captions. This means you can watch YouTube videos that don't have captions by creating and translating them as you go.

This article will explain in detail how to use Google Chrome's Live Caption and translation features.

If you're struggling to watch videos in foreign languages like English, why not try transcribing and translating them with Google Chrome using this article as a guide?

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Translate Videos with Google Chrome's Live Caption Feature

Video platforms like YouTube have automatic captioning and translation features, but they aren't available for all videos.

In such cases, it's recommended to use the Live Caption and translation features built into Google Chrome.

What is YouTube's Caption Feature?

YouTube offers both a caption feature and a translation feature.

The caption feature displays captions on the video.

You can enable it by clicking "Captions" in the bottom right corner of the video.

Captions include those set by the video creator and automatic captions

The captions that can be displayed using YouTube's caption feature include:

• Captions manually set by the video creator
• Captions automatically generated by AI

Manual captioning is very time-consuming, so for most videos on YouTube, AI-generated automatic captions are used.

What is YouTube's Automatic Translation Feature?

YouTube can automatically translate video captions into other languages.

YouTube's automatic translation feature can be used with both manually set captions by the video creator and AI-generated automatic captions.

How to Use the Automatic Translation Feature

To translate captions, with captions displayed, click on the settings icon (gear icon) in the bottom right corner of the video.

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From the displayed menu, click "Subtitles."

After clicking "Subtitles," from the menu that appears, click "Auto-translate."

After clicking "Auto-translate," from the menu that appears, select the target language for translation.

For example, Japanese is selected.

*The target language may automatically be set to the user's preferred language.

You have now successfully auto-translated the YouTube subtitles.

Some Videos May Not Display Auto-Generated Subtitles

However, many videos on YouTube do not have auto-generated subtitles.

For example, the video in this image, uploaded by YouTube's official channel, does not allow the use of subtitles.

Since there are no original subtitles, you cannot auto-translate them either.

There are two reasons why auto-generated subtitles might not be available:

1. The Video Creator Has Not Configured Necessary Settings

To generate auto-subtitles for a YouTube video, two settings are required:

• Setting the language used in the video
• Allowing auto-subtitle generation for the video

If the video creator has not performed these settings, auto-subtitles cannot be displayed or translated.

2. Older Videos

Older videos uploaded before YouTube had an auto-subtitle featuredo not have the necessary settings for auto-subtitle generation.

To display auto-subtitles for older videos, the video creator needs to configure the auto-subtitle generation settings from the YouTube Studio dashboard.

Once the video creator has set up the subtitles, even older videos can utilize auto-subtitles.

Google Chrome's Features Enable Auto-Subtitles and Auto-Translation

It's very inconvenient when videos lack auto-subtitles, as you can't auto-translate and watch them.

But don't worry!

By using the auto-subtitle feature built into Google Chrome, you can generate and auto-translate video subtitles for viewing!

What's more, you can use auto-subtitles on video sites other than YouTube, so with Google Chrome's features, you can translate and watch content on video sites that don't have their own subtitle functions.

How to Use Google Chrome's Auto-Subtitle and Auto-Translation Features

How do I use Google Chrome's auto-subtitle feature?

This section explains how to generate and translate auto-subtitles using Google Chrome.

1. Open Settings

Click the vertical "..." icon in the top right corner of Google Chrome.

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Click "Settings" at the bottom of the menu that opens.

2. Open "Accessibility"

From the left-hand menu on the Google Chrome settings screen, click "Accessibility".

"Accessibility" is now open.

3. Turn on Live Caption

Turn "Live Caption" ON, which is at the top of "Accessibility".

Then, the download of speech recognition files will begin.

(The file being downloaded at this time is for English speech recognition.)

Once "Speech files downloaded" appears, the download of the English speech recognition file is complete.

Now, Google Chrome can use live captions and automatic translation for English videos.

You can also add languages

If you want to transcribe and create live captions for other languages, click "Add language".

Select the language you want to add and click "Add". The speech recognition file will be downloaded just like for English.

4. Turn on "Live Translate"

Next, turn "Live Translate" ON, which is below "Live Caption".

When turned on, the target translation language is English, so set the target language to Japanese from the menu.

5. Play a video on a video site

Now, Google Chrome's live caption and automatic translation features are ready to use.

When you play a video in this state, captions will automatically appear.

As an example, let's display a YouTube video that doesn't have automatic captions.

As you can see, captions will appear overlaid on the Google Chrome screen.

Since the "Live Translate" feature is on, the video's content will be automatically translated.

You can also drag the caption window with your mouse to adjust its position.

This completes the process of using Google Chrome's automatic captioning and automatic translation features.

Captions can be displayed on video sites other than YouTube

By setting up automatic captions and translation features in Google Chrome, you can use captions and translations for videos on other sites as well.

For example, in this image, a video is playing on the BBC website in the UK, and automatically translated captions are displayed just like on YouTube.

How to add high-quality captions to YouTube videos?

I want to add captions to the videos I create myself too!

YouTube videos can be translated into foreign languages by using the standard automatic captioning feature or by using Google Chrome's automatic captioning feature as explained this time.

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2. Download the Subtitle File

On the transcription results screen, click the "Subtitle File" button to download the subtitle file.

3. Upload Subtitles to YouTube

From the YouTube Studio dashboard, open "Video details" for the video you want to add subtitles to.

Click "Subtitles" on the right side.

The subtitle management screen will open.

On this screen, click "Upload file".

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