Add subtitles & captions

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Subtitles.
  3. Select the video that you'd like to edit.
  4. Click ADD LANGUAGE and select your language.
  5. Under "Subtitles", click ADD.
  6. 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.
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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