YouTube auto generated subtitles?

[ChasVideo]

Is there a way to download the YT auto generated subtitles as a separate text file?
Will YT auto generate subtitles in a foreign language on a foreign language film?
Or auto convert to English?

What I really want is to translate foreign language films into English when there are no subtitles available anywhere. YT may help. I could upload the video.
I want to get a text file of the speech from a foreign language film in that language. Then I can use Google translate to get into English.

Ideas?

[BeLive]

Is there a way to download the YT auto generated subtitles as a separate text file?

Yes, you can use yt-dlp program which has essential subtitle options.

Examples:

# this will download all auto-generated subtitles by youtube
yt-dlp LINK --write-auto-subs --sub-langs "all"

# this will download only official subtitles added by creator
yt-dlp LINK --write-subs

Will YT auto generate subtitles in a foreign language on a foreign language film?
Or auto convert to English?

It will vary on Creator and YouTube itself. More Information

I want to get a text file of the speech from a foreign language film in that language. Then I can use Google translate to get into English.

You can use YouTube but there is no guarantee and quality might not be optimum. It's better you try searching the title on OTT platforms, Bluray, etc. sources to see if there are any official subtitle from creators themselves. I would also search on machine-learning/ai related community to see if there are any accessible project which can help me with the auto subtitle.

[ChasVideo]

Thanks. I will try these. My thinking is that Google has the money to make their auto-generated subtitles work. But they do have a 10%-25% error rate on English films. No idea how well Foreign languages will do. If I can get 50% accurate, I will be satisfied. Better than nothing. I can get the overall idea.

The web sites and programs I see are all too expensive. If I only ever wanted to do one movie, they would be OK. I have looked but can't find any communities for transcribing ai discussions.

[ChasVideo]

Yes. It works. Thank you. I uploaded a video and was able to get YT to create the subtitles in the original language. Then you can get auto translate to another language while you play. And yt-dlp can download the subtitle files. The speech detection is poor but it gets over 50% of the words correct on my quick test. The auto English translation kinda sucks. It will display a translation for one person but not when the other person speaks. Even though the video has original language subtitles for that other person. Odd.
I am not clear on what steps are needed to auto generate the subtitles. I think I am doing extra steps that I don't have to. It takes a while. Maybe an hour to create subtitles for a 10 minute video.

[Jawz22]

Is there a way to download the YT auto generated subtitles as a separate text file?
Will YT auto generate subtitles in a foreign language on a foreign language film?
Or auto convert to English?

What I really want is to translate foreign language films into English when there are no subtitles available anywhere. YT may help. I could upload the video.
I want to get a text file of the speech from a foreign language film in that language. Then I can use Google translate to get into English.

Ideas?

Which languages are the movies originally? I have used Adobe Premiere which uses AI/machine learning. Found it to work pretty well. Has these languages English, English UK, simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Italian, Russian, and Hindi.

And for languages not in the above list, I've used descript. I have created subtitles in Polish, Slovakian, and Czech Republic. Again worked pretty well with pretty high accuracy. This is a paid for software but you can get a free trial of about 3 hours of subtitle transcribing.

Both programs can export the subtitles in srt and other formats.

[ChasVideo]

Which languages are the movies originally? I have used Adobe Premiere which uses AI/machine learning. Found it to work pretty well. Has these languages English, English UK, simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Italian, Russian, and Hindi.

And for languages not in the above list, I've used descript. I have created subtitles in Polish, Slovakian, and Czech Republic. Again worked pretty well with pretty high accuracy. This is a paid for software but you can get a free trial of about 3 hours of subtitle transcribing.

Both programs can export the subtitles in srt and other formats.

Yes. These sound like the correct idea. Thank You. I searched for speech to subtitle programs/services and only found kinda expensive ones. They give limited hours per month before charging extra. I had no idea Premiere can do this now. I used Premiere in the past. I don't like the monthly subscription service but Premiere and descript having a monthly plan actually works for me. I can do all the movies I need to do within one month.

Question: Does descript actually use human transcribers? It sort of sounds like that. It says "Automatic and human-powered transcription with industry leading accuracy and powerful collaboration tools." You submit your audio/video and they return it later. But the price is too low so maybe it is just ai software. That means you have to upload and download at least the audio portion. I prefer to do it locally. I will try Premiere first.

[Jawz22]

Question: Does descript actually use human transcribers? It sort of sounds like that. It says "Automatic and human-powered transcription with industry leading accuracy and powerful collaboration tools." You submit your audio/video and they return it later. But the price is too low so maybe it is just ai software. That means you have to upload and download at least the audio portion. I prefer to do it locally. I will try Premiere first.

They may do it that way, but I upload my video and then transcribe the subtitles online an then download the .srt file. So I guess it is an AI software.