I can edit and polish the automatically generated transcript much faster than I could create my own from scratch. It’s not fantastically accurate, but it’s close enough to be a useful starting point. YouTube uses speech-to-text technology to automatically generate captions for any video that doesn’t already have them (in a handful of languages, at least). So what I do instead is lean on YouTube to get a first draft of a transcript, and then I tidy it up by hand. If I have to do it myself, writing a new transcript is a lot of work, and slows down posting the slides. Some conferences have live captioning (a human speech-to-text reporter transcribing everything I say, as I write it), which does the hard work for me! That’s great, and those transcripts are very high quality – but not every event does this. A transcript is a more accurate reflection of what I said on the day. I might add or remove something at the last minute, make subtle changes based on the mood of the audience, or make a reference to a previous session that wasn’t in my original notes. I share a transcript rather than pre-prepared notes because I often ad lib the content of my talks. Here’s an example from P圜on UK last year: Assume Worst Intent.

Plus, it makes the talk more accessible for people with hearing difficulties.

A written transcript is easier to skim, to search, and for Google to index. Along with the video, I like to post the slides afterwards, and include an inline transcript. The caption track is returned in its original format unless the request specifies a value for the tfmt parameter and in its original language unless the request specifies a value for the tlang parameter.When I give conference talks, my talks are often videoed and shared on YouTube. When updating a caption track, you can change the track's draft status, upload a new caption file for the track, or both. Note that the API response does not contain the actual captions and that the captions.download method provides the ability to retrieve a caption track. The API supports the following methods for captions resources: list Retrieve a list of caption tracks that are associated with a specified video. A caption track is associated with exactly one YouTube video. Way that caption IDs are generated and, as part of that change, is assigning new caption IDsĪ caption resource represents a YouTube caption track. Note: On August 5, 2022, YouTube announced that it has changed the

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