The YouTube Blog announced a new innovation in language translation which helps further break down the barriers of communication in our ever widening online networks. It builds on Google's AJAX Language API and extends that capability into any YouTube video with a caption track. Mark Robertson of ReelSEO wrote today, "Adding captions and subtitles to your videos not only make your video accessible to those with hearing impairments, but adding them in multiple languages can help to drive additional traffic from non-English speakers and international audiences. Last month, we wrote a beta feature in Dailymotion that allows users to add subtitles, with support for multiple languages, to web videos. Youtube has gone one step further." - from Auto-Translate Your Youtube Video Captions and Subtitles Automatically The YouTube blog announced yesterday, "In August, we added captions and subtitles to YouTube videos to help uploaders reach a wider audience. While we've been working to offer captions in as many different languages as possible, there are often only a few translated versions available. To solve this problem, we added a new "auto translate" feature. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload. Now you can enjoy this video spoken in Italian, even if you don't understand Italian.... To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the "Translate..." button and then you will be given a choice of many different languages." - from Auto Translate Now Available For Videos With Captions | The YouTube Blog YouTube Captions and Subtitles Description: Add multiple captions or subtitle tracks to your videos!About captions and subtitles feature http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about English script can be found here. http://sites.google.com/site/youtubecaptoinsandsubtitles/ With so many different languages, dialects,...

One strategy in making your videos more accessible to a wider audience may be to include captions and subtitles in multiple languages with your video.  Adding captions and subtitles to your videos not only make your video accessible to those with hearing impairments, but adding them in multiple languages can help to drive additional traffic from non-English speakers and international audiences.Last month, we wrote  a beta feature in Dailymotion that allows users to add subtitles, with support for multiple languages, to web videos.  Youtube has gone one step further.  If you recall, back in late August, Youtube already released a new feature that allowed users to include captions with youtube videos.  On Saturday, Youtube announced on their blog that they have added a new auto-translation feature to any captions uploaded.  Using Google’s Translate service, the captions can be auto-translated in multiple languages.To use the new feature, mouse over the arrow in the bottom right of the player and then choose the CC option to see the captions menu.  Once you do, you will see the default language and the ability to “translated” the captions.  Once you click on “translate,” you will be able to choose from 35  different languages.I haven’t had too much time to play with this feature, but being that I have seen what the auto-translation does to my blog (see the right rail for other languages), it is clear to me that their may be some odd translations.  It would be nice if Google added a suggestions feature to the captions that are auto translated from users who are multilingual and can help to further translate more difficult words, slang, etc…  If anyone finds a comedic example, please let us know so we can share.Share and Bookmark: Internet Video Topics: DailyMotion, accessibility, captioning, video SEO, international, video sharing, Google, youtube Related Online Video News Where to Submit ...

Me acabo de dar cuenta que podemos subtitular los videos de Youtube… es decir ya no hay que incrustar los subtítulos en el video y luego colgarlo en internet, sino que una vez colgado podemos añadirle los subtítulos y no sólo en un idioma sino en varios, para que así muchas personas de otros países que no hablen ni inglés ni español o el idioma original del video o hasta los sordos puedan entender nuestro video (aunque claro, nosotros deberíamos saber el idioma a traducir si es que queremos hacerlo)… no sé si sea muy nueva esta opción pero al menos yo recien me doy cuenta que la existe…En este video explica cómo funciona la opción de subtítulos…Posted in La Web, Tecnología, Videos Tagged: idiomas, subtitulo, titulo, youtube