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You don't need a YouTube account to download things. Here's how to download captions using youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options https

You don't need a YouTube account to download things. Here's how to download captions using youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options I wouldn't bother with the automatically generated ones, though. They are not good enough. (Whenever there are real captions, I turn them on to be able to speed up the video beyond the point where I can no longer hear what people say. That's great!)

jasode 8y ago
>Whenever there are real captions, How can you tell if the captions are real vs auto-generated? Do you mean "real" as in subtitles that are burned into the video source instead of being dynamically overlaid?
- Bromskloss 8y ago
  I don't mean burnt into the video. The YouTube inteface says "auto-generated" when it is the case (example [0]). Sometimes, though, it seems that uploaders have taken auto-generated captions and added them as if they were manually made, so then YouTube doesn't label it correctly. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI
  - jasode 8y ago
    >The YouTube inteface says "auto-generated" Ok, I never noticed that. I just read the captions and assumed obvious misspellings were auto-generated. For example in this video[1], the caption text is "L1D cache misses" but he's actually saying "L1-dcache misses". (The Linux terminal screen he's showing does display "L1-dcache".) Even though that video is not labeled as "auto-generated", I assumed it was because of the bad caption. Based on your info, I guess CppCon uses humans like Mechanical Turk or other non-domain typists to manually add the captions. [1] https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?t=21m16s https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?t=21m16s
    - yorwba 8y ago
      Manual captioning is almost always not done by domain experts, but by people who have some training with a captioning system and work as professional captionists. Their main advantage is that they'll caption much faster and much cheaper than having domain experts do it, but the quality tends to suffer. In college, I met a deaf guy who always had two women accompany him to lectures; one of them would repeat everything into a mouth-covering microphone to generate an automatic transcription and the other went over it to correct obvious errors. They generated a lot of nonsense, especially when the German professor was using some English loanwords for CS concepts. I was always amazed that the deaf guy still somehow managed to learn something from these garbled transcriptions.
      - Bromskloss 8y ago
        Why not sign language?
        yorwba 8y ago
        I guess sign language interpreters are more expensive.

jasode 8y ago

>Whenever there are real captions, How can you tell if the captions are real vs auto-generated? Do you mean "real" as in subtitles that are burned into the video source instead of being dynamically overlaid?

Bromskloss 8y ago
I don't mean burnt into the video. The YouTube inteface says "auto-generated" when it is the case (example [0]). Sometimes, though, it seems that uploaders have taken auto-generated captions and added them as if they were manually made, so then YouTube doesn't label it correctly. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI
- jasode 8y ago
  >The YouTube inteface says "auto-generated" Ok, I never noticed that. I just read the captions and assumed obvious misspellings were auto-generated. For example in this video[1], the caption text is "L1D cache misses" but he's actually saying "L1-dcache misses". (The Linux terminal screen he's showing does display "L1-dcache".) Even though that video is not labeled as "auto-generated", I assumed it was because of the bad caption. Based on your info, I guess CppCon uses humans like Mechanical Turk or other non-domain typists to manually add the captions. [1] https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?t=21m16s https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?t=21m16s
  - yorwba 8y ago
    Manual captioning is almost always not done by domain experts, but by people who have some training with a captioning system and work as professional captionists. Their main advantage is that they'll caption much faster and much cheaper than having domain experts do it, but the quality tends to suffer. In college, I met a deaf guy who always had two women accompany him to lectures; one of them would repeat everything into a mouth-covering microphone to generate an automatic transcription and the other went over it to correct obvious errors. They generated a lot of nonsense, especially when the German professor was using some English loanwords for CS concepts. I was always amazed that the deaf guy still somehow managed to learn something from these garbled transcriptions.
    - Bromskloss 8y ago
      Why not sign language?
      - yorwba 8y ago
        I guess sign language interpreters are more expensive.