Subtitles and captions allow you to share your videos with a larger audience, including deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers and viewers who speak another language. Learn more about editing or removing existing captions.
Create subtitles & captions
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left menu, select Subtitles.
- Select the video that you'd like to edit.
- Click ADD LANGUAGE and select your language.
- Under "Subtitles", click ADD.
- Then choose from one of the options to add your subtitles and captions.
Note: You can also add subtitles and captions during the upload process.
Type manually
Auto-translate
Note: Automatic captions will be in the video's default language only.
Watch how to add subtitles & captions
Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to add subtitles and captions.
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