Name: The Secret Language of Captions DECODED!!! [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:51:46.000Z
Duration: 8 min 28 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Hello I'm Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, welcome to the last in my series of videos

focusing on captions on YouTube and their importance, in celebration of

In the first video I went through what captions are and why they're useful.

the second video is a quick breakdown of how to

actually add those captions to youtube videos. And the third was a run-through

But, in this video I'm going to explain  the secret world of captions,

and a few YouTube tricks to give you a better experience as a viewer.

Unlike subtitles, captions aren't  just dialogue written on the screen.

If you're British and really confused we call both

captions and subtitles..'subtitles' because it's a thing.

They also need to give some clue about what those words actually mean.

I've played to this glossary from the many realms of the Internet

including the BBC guidelines for best practice in online captioning.

These are not the be-all and end-all rules of captioning however.

If there are any captioning rules or quirks you think I've missed

then please do leave them in the comments down below.

There are of exceptions to every rule and these will be different in different countries

I'm actually really intrigued to learn about captioning and other languages

so if you are from a different country and

English is not the language that you use please do let me know the kind of

captioning practices that you have in your country.

80% of people who use captions are hearing

the way you use captions is just as important as having them in the first place

because alternatives like plugging in earphones or waiting until you're not in

a crowded noisy space just don't exist for that 20%

and that's a really huge demographic to exclude

so let me help you decode the language of captions

and help you make the best ones you possibly can

I shall start with the exciting questions

number of characters as the swear word you're trying to replace

They're comical and nonsensical but alternatively, if you're not just trying

to amuse your viewer but instead escape the census

Simply write the first and last letters of the word

When used on TV or streaming services, narration is usually italicised

where you can't control such a thing unless of course you've already created

a file off-site and then uploading it using the upload a file feature which I

talked to you about in video 2 which you've definitely watched

If you have a video that involves a narrator or a voiceover best practice would

at the start of whatever they're saying and

by naming the voices at the start of their speech and then shortening them to

just an initial if they continue to be a back and forth

You could also use three greater than symbols

but I think the tidiest is just to use a hyphen

So you're transcribing your vlog or someone else's and there's

the sentence that no matter how many times you bump up the volume and replay

Simply use brackets (indistinct) or brackets (unclear)

Captions display dialogue sound effects and music but also give it a good

Some lyrics are delimited by either a musical note or

the pound sign that's not the Sterling sign it's this thing also known as the

number sign or the hash sign and now the hash tag

Because the person watching it may also believe

that symbol donates music so they're going to get very confused

But to save confusion, just you know write it out in full

Oh! However with the @ symbol you should use the @ symbol

because apparently that's less confusing.

Words don't always make sense if you've never heard words

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