If you want to use downloadable subtitles generating software then you can either select Jubler, Aegisubs, or DivXLand. The web-browser-based tools for auto-captioning include Amara Subtitle Editor, SubtitleBee, Subly, or Subtitle Horse. In such a case, if the subtitles are not generated automatically, then you can try one of the tools, available for subtitling. Since you mentioned that you upload long videos, this could be one of the reasons for not generating subtitles according to the official Google support page for YouTube.

The video has overlapping speeches by numerous speakers.

If the video has a long silence in the beginning.

YouTube does not perceive the speech in the video.

The audio quality of the video is poor.

Automatic closed captions do not support video language.

If the audio in the video is complex, then maybe captions are not accessible yet due to video processing.

YouTube generally provides the facility for auto-generating closed captions, but there are reasons due to which automatic captions are not generated. My videos are all like an hour long, so doing it manually is too much of a pain.Īny suggestions? I've Googled this plenty and found no good solutions. I'm willing to pay if it's like a software, and I can re-use it forever, upload my video or audio file into it, and spit out auto-generated text, but I don't want to pay piecemeal, to some online service. I want something that will just auto-generate them for me. I want something free, I'm not paying $1 a minute. So how can I easily now, after the fact, get subtitles generated for my videos that don't have it. Why can't YouTube have a button for it to try and auto generate it! And I have to explain 'I always have auto-captions turned on for my videos, just sometimes YouTube messes up and doesn't do it'.

I've had some viewers complain to me 'can you turn on auto-captions for this video?' One of my viewers emailed me and was deaf and I really felt bad about it.

There is no way for me to tell YouTube 'no you've made a mistake, there is in fact spoken audio in this video I need you to auto-caption it'. But sometimes it doesn't, I don't know why. 85% of the time, YouTube autogenerates subtitles for my YouTube videos no problem.

Auto generated closed captions