youtube's speech-to-text automatically generated subtitles

Here's how you can turn on live automatic captions:

• Go to YouTube.
• From the top right, click Create Go live.
• Choose Stream from the left-hand menu.
• Within stream settings, turn on Closed captions.
• Choose “Automatic captions” as the captions source.
• Select your video language.

1. Why are YouTube subtitles auto generated?
2. How long does it take for YouTube to auto generate subtitles?

Why are YouTube subtitles auto generated?

Captions are a great way to make content accessible for viewers. ... Note: These automatic captions are generated by machine-learning algorithms, so the quality of the captions may vary. We encourage creators to add professional captions first. YouTube is constantly improving its speech recognition technology.

How long does it take for YouTube to auto generate subtitles?

This may take 5 or 10 minutes to process as it aligns the written text with the audio track. You can close the dialog box while it processes. In your subtitle list you will see the words 'Generating timings'.