And finally, the YouTube URL where the video lives on YouTube servers Adjust your information as needed.The password for your username -p YourYouTubePassword.Adding your username to get access to the private video file -u YourYouTubeUserName.

The option to not re-download the video -skip-download.

The option to get the automatic captions -write-auto-sub.

Type your info in the following form youtube-dl -write-auto-sub -skip-download -u YourYouTubeUserName -p YourYouTubePassword.

We'll also avoid re-downloading the video file since we already have it on our computer. Since we've uploaded our video file and set it to private, we'll have to use our YouTube credentials in order to access the video file and extract the captions and timestamps. Once installed, we can now use youtube-dl to download our captions. As an aside, you can optionally use Watson (Yes the jeopardy contest AI) to do the transcribing for you as well but you'll then have to create timestamps yourself. I like using the YouTube transcriber since it will also automatically add timestamps to your captions that you can in turn download using the youtube-dl program described later. The first thing you will do is upload your video file to YouTube. Sometimes, you need the captions for other purposes which is our focus here.

Secondly, I'm assuming that you need captions for a video that isn't necessarily going to be viewed on a video sharing site like YouTube. However, the bulk of the work will be transcribed just fine saving you a bunch of time and headache. There will be transcribing mistakes that will need to be reviewed and edited. I'd like to limit expectations when using any text-to-speech solution. Extracting the automatically added captions.

Caption for youtube video