Hello once again, audience! Last time I was talking about some useful stuff on YouTube. Today I'm gonna continue with some new feature - automatic captions. Actually it's not quite new. Caption support was introduced to YouTube users in late 2006. Since then billions of videos with captions were uploaded.


What are YouTube "captions"?
You can enable captions (subtitles) in low right corner of a video screen by clicking on "CC" button. While watching a video, you can also change the way the captions look by clicking on the “CC” icon again and then the “Settings...” menu item. This includes changing the font size or colors used, and we’re planning to make this available on other platforms and add more options soon.

What's new

Recently, (28 February 2012)YouTube announced its ability to automatically caption videos in an effort to reach more viewers with hearing disabilities and language differences. Now great efforts are put into improving this feature.


The site will have automatic captioning abilities in three languages — English, Japanese and Korean — and non-automatic subtitles are available in 155 languages and dialects. In addition, YouTube users can search specifically for videos with captions. Font, color and size of the caption text can be changed to improve the viewer’s experience.

Tip - Search for videos with captions
If you are looking for that great quote from a video on YouTube, you can add ", cc" to any search, or after searching, click Filter > CC to only see results with closed captions.

Hope, you've found this info useful. Thanks for reading, peace out!