Transcripts from YouTube and auto-translated captions are on their way to your phone.

One of YouTube's most useful features is captions. We are not always in situations where we can hear the audio of a video, and subtitles can save the day by allowing us to watch a video even if your phone is muted. The company stated at Google I/O 2022 that YouTube is doubling down on captions, introducing transcripts and auto-translations for videos you watch on your phone.

These, like automatic captions, will be generated using Google's speech recognition algorithms, with the extra benefit of being able to read them down in a list format, similar to the auto-transcripts in the Google Recorder app, at least according to the brief sample given during Google's keynote.

However, just with auto-captions, don't expect these to perform flawlessly, especially when it first launches. While it usually works great in Google Recorder, videos can be a mixed bag, with either flawless or really low-quality transcripts depending on the programme.

We're also getting captions that are automatically translated. It works precisely as you'd expect – if a video includes captions, go into its settings, press on "Auto-translate," choose your chosen language, and you'll have subtitles in your language. This feature has long been accessible on YouTube's site version, so its release on the mobile version is long overdue.

This can be useful in a variety of situations. While some YouTube creators provide captions in different languages in their videos, this is far from the standard. Because our phones are increasingly being used to access YouTube, the fact that mobile users can now translate subtitles will open doors and enable creators reach viewers from all over the world, regardless of the language they speak.

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