# easy way to create subtitles for youtube videos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-create-subtitles-for-youtube-videos/741957>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-create-subtitles-for-youtube-videos/741957 "2016-01-01T23:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlowplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@carlowplayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlowplayer)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-create-subtitles-for-youtube-videos/741957/1 "2016-01-01T23:46:54Z")

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I want create subtitles for my youtube videos and dont have the time to write down the whole time stamps (the videos are at least 2-3 hours long) am wondering if there is software that can record the audio and then organize it into the correct time stamps so the spoken words and their translation are in sync

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-create-subtitles-for-youtube-videos/741957/2 "2016-01-02T00:22:56Z")

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Youtube has a feature like that built in - here’s a tutorial I found:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y7FDktLN_f8/hqdefault.jpg "How to use Youtube's Auto Caption feature") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7FDktLN_f8)