Earlier this year I proposed the idea https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11306-arc-recognize-captioned-youtube-videos?sr=search&searchI..., but it has not happened yet. So I did some poking and searching and found a solution.
In the embedded video I demonstrate the following tasks:
- Use the website Youtube2Subtitle.com to generate a .srt file from a YouTube video's captions
- Upload the caption file into Arc
The video demo I made on my iMac, and I was able to download the .srt file directly from the website. It is also possible to create your own .srt file by copying the caption from the YouTube2Subtitle.com website into a plain-text editor (like Notepad on Windows) and saving that with a .srt extension.
Edited with a new process:
This week I looked at the site mentioned in this blog entry and found out it no longer functions. Ugh! Before I fell into too much despair I saw that it is possible to download a copy of the captions file from YouTube. The video must be set to allow community members to contribute captions. If the video already has English captions provided by the creator those cannot be downloaded, but I discovered that I could tell YouTube I was contributing captions in a friendly language, say Canadian English, and I was able to one-click copy the published captions to my new language. That could then be downloaded. (I say "friendly' because I tried to create captions in Klingon but that language does not have the one-click copy from English.)
YouTube does not download captions in a file that is recognized by Arc. so I had to convert those captions (.sbv file) into an Arc-friendly format (.srt file). I found a site that does this (https://captionsconverter.com). We'll see how long this one lasts!
It's all demonstrated on this video:
