How using captions can get you 80% more views! // Why captions are useful [CC]
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So happy to finally be sharing my #InternationalWeekOfTheDeaf 2018 series with you! And yes, you may recognise some of this script from my speech at VidCon this year... 😉In this series I'll be talking about the importance of captions, how to caption and captioning language.
As you know, captions are SO IMPORTANT and it would be great if we could get as many people as possible to properly caption their RUclips videos. Please, please, please share this video and the necessity for captions far and wide but particularly with your favourite RUclipsrs ❤️
J xxx
That's funny. I was going to say that this would be a great presentation at VidCon! :)
Does the music at the end have a title?
Eating super crunchy food and can't understand dialogue in a video...... CAPTIONS! PROBLEM SOLVED
Same Same
I have been adding subtitles to my sewing tutorials for the last year or two. A few viewers reached out to me saying they were hard of hearing or had a deaf relative, so I started adding subtitles. For tutorials I usually upload my script and let RUclips set the timings. For chatty videos I use the autocaptions and go in and correct the mistakes. Not the most perfect way, but works for now.
I have no hearing issues or processing issues but i bloody love subtitles. I used to watch a lot of foreign films and grew heavily dependent on captions- and I always wondered why I retained knowledge from videos better with CC on- reading! So here's a tip, when you read and listen to something, you retain a lot more knowledge, so when looking up educational videos, here you go!
This exact thing is why I always took amazing notes in school. Because the act of me writing down what I was hearing significantly increased my retention, even if I never read those notes again.
Same! My mom’s hard of hearing, with declining hearing. I was raised with CC’s, and, while I can watch stuff without them, I’d much rather use them.
Fancy fancy! #NoMoreCRAPtions
❤️🙌❤️
And now I finally know how to say all of your last name correctly! Hahaha #deafproblems
I agree,,,, Wow! what an edit... boggles my mind how long this video took to produce. You both have great content, keep the videos coming. 👍
Thank you both!
Same here Rikki! I just say, Jessica. XD It's pretty awesome to have my 2 favourite youtuber networking. :D
I use captions for ADHD as without them I tend to loose track of what's being said quickly or stop paying attention and stop taking in the words I'm hearing. If there's captions I know I have to be reading as well and that helps to stimulate my brain so I can focus better and makes it more likely that what's being said is actually going in. Since starting to use them I've noticed just how few creators actually caption their videos! Even major creators tend to leave it to 'auto' which, lets be real, is awful, or let their audience caption it which either can take days/weeks/months or can be inaccurate/filled with jokes which are funny but limit the actual 'translation' if you will.
15mice Same
5:58 "Oh deafness is coming for you, I'm sorry about that." ^_^
As one of the 38 million US population with some degree of hearing loss _and_ a daily headphone wearer, yes, I can confirm. Enjoy those high frequencies while you can, whippersnappers! Because one day you'll be like me: skipping videos that lack useful captions.
That is so true. I'm hard of hearing and deaf. When I can't get good captions or any at all, I just don't watch the videos because I either can't turn the noise to high because of location or it's just not worth my time.
Everytime a vehicle goes by with music blasting, I think the same thing.... deafness is coming for you.
I have really bad insomnia at the moment and being able to watch videos without waking my partner is a lifesaver! I will always watch content creators who take the time to subtitle/caption their videos - accessibility and useability are so often understated with this media.
I loved the bit where you showed us how a video sounds to you. My hearing is very good so I always tried to understand how the world might sound like for my mother.
I had my headphones on during that bit of the video and wasn't really listening so it came as a bit of a surprise when I suddenly couldn't hear as good as I usually can.
I'm now fluent enough to understand English without needing subtitles but they helped me so much when I first learned.
I still use Spanish subtitles on Spanish videos because I'm nowhere near good enough to understand everything but can understand almost everything when I can also read it. Subtitles made my life much more colorful over the years and without them I wouldn't be where I am now. Also still sometimes use English subtitles when depression gets really bad and I can't concentrate on listening as well as I normally can.
Underappreciated reason for using captions: when you wanna watch youtube videos while you dry your hair
As a speech science researcher I love captions because they make my job better and save me so much time. Manual transcription and sorting through ambiguity (especially with unfamiliar accents in a context poor environments) are incredibly time consuming tasks, and reducing the time spent on them let's me get to the analytical portion of my job much more quickly.
I tend not to use subtitles, but as a non-native English speaker, once in a while I'll come across a phrase I just can't make out. I'm always thankful to the creators whose videos let me put on subtitles for that section of the video, so I could continue watching without feeling that I've missed part of the message and now have to figure it out on my own. And that's one of the reasons I love your channel so much, I know I can always count on you in that ❤
Thank you for explaining all about subtitles/captions so clearly and extensively!
This is so important!!!! I'm hearing and I always put captions on because it's easier to process :)
Same
Captions are definitely a huge help! This is especially true when watching educational videos where you're actively trying to absorb the information presented to you, as it's all important. Thank you Jessica for being informative and lovely! (as always)
For recipe videos they would be super helpful, I follow a lot of food RUclipsrs that don't use them and I have to turn off the auto captions because their accents make it so that the captions are almost unintelligible
Thumbs up for the title alone.
THANK THANK THANK THANK THANK YOU!! i'm not deaf but have a really hard time listening to videos and movies (am i going deaf??) and always prefer cc's. this is so important for those who have a hard time understanding stuff. let's hope that someone from the movie industry sees this...
Captions help me with my Fibromyalgia and ME brain fog. I feel myself zoning out if there are no captions. It all goes a bit like Charlie Brown’s teacher in Peanuts!
Helen Stokes Me too!
Oh yes, definitely! Me too. Sometimes the extra visual information can help
Same! That fog can really ruin a storyline.
Same!
If it’s a short make up tutorial or something I manage but all documentaries I’m using the CCs.
I can’t read a book because I don’t get through the prologue and I’ve forgotten what I’ve read but because videos have pictures I’m okay. Our stupid, stubborn brains are not helping us all the time!
I laughed out loud with "Captions! Problem solved." So cute. But it is true. I never imagined Captions where so useful. Thanks Jessica. Greetings from Puerto Rico!
Actually, i'm improving my English thanks to subtitles! and loving your videos, I am so happy that I can read the captiosn, because I really match all the words you say. This video was 100% understandable and usefull in different ways! I agree with you. Sometimes we need captions just because we can't put on the music, so it would be usefull for any situation. Thankyou Jessica, as always your messages are incredibly deep.
I'm learning Italian, and also find subtitles so useful in language learning. They help so much.
I speak a little bit of french, and my reading is ok but I'm terrible at listening to it. I like watching french programs with subtitles because I can get used to how people say things
this is why subs are important! thank you for sharing jess! you're so gorgeous as always ❤️✨
Yes this is so important. I love that we are taking a great approach towards using captions/subtitles in more videos. I am now deaf in one ear and my other ear was already losing it’s hearing quickly before my brain injury in the Army and captions have always been helpful but now they’re my best friend and I need them even more.
I can’t wait to see the next three videos!! Your statistics were eye opening, well done! I’m going to pass this on to some beauty channels I watch, but have a hard time understanding everything b/c they are from other countries. I think they would easily gain more English speaking followers by putting in subtitles. Much Love 🤗💜😘!
I have ADHD and captions are AMAZINGLY helpful for me in so many situations! A lot of times I don’t have the mental energy to focus on listening intently, but reading is so much easier.
As a person with perfectly fine hearing, captions are *super* useful to me, but I didn't realize it until I started watching you. Some accents are difficult, some videos have noise, sometimes my diabetes (rapid changes in blood sugar, specifically) affects my brain's processing capacity, and sometimes I'm watching a video for a class I'm going to have a quiz on and need to know *exactly* what's being said. I don't have to rewind if I miss something when captions are there because I'm a faster reader than I am a sound processor. Which by the way, sound processing takes up to six seconds sometimes for people with normal hearing and sound processing, and by then someone could be on a totally different topic!
Oh! As someone who is considering becoming a content creator this is going to be SO useful
Watching this, I put on the captions and it actually helped me pay more attention! That's really cool.
SO excited to watch the rest of this series and start using captions!!
I'm not deaf nor hard of hearing, but I have sensory overload and misophonia (extreme hatred of sound) and it hurts to hear sound sometimes, with captions I can enjoy a lot more different types of content! (some voices/background music can hurt a lot)
Captions were essential to my English learning process. I am german and had only been in contact with the english language in school when I started watching english videos on RUclips. It was really hard to understand what the people were talking about.
Especially if they were talking fast, which happened a lot . If I wanted to look up a word I often didn't know how to spell it if I had only heard it but hadn't seen it in written form. So I often misspelled it.
That's what the translater apps often couldn't find a translation. As you can imagine I often turned to German RUclips videos instead of the English videos with the same topic.
But when I discovered how to turn on the captions I could finally understand the details of the english videos . It was also very easy to look up the words that I didn't know. I started watching englisch RUclips videos regularly because I understood the details and now it doesn't really make a difference if I watch videos in German or in English .
Captions really helped me with my English which gives me much more opportunities in the internet and doesn't only limits the videos I can watch to videos in German.
So thank you to all the people who put captions on their videos.
It really helps a lot if people!
I love subtitles. Whenever I’m watching films with people they’re always confused when I turn the subtitles on. It’s just better and you can actually understand everything that’s happening
I love it when videos have captions, it's so handy if I either can't understand what someone's saying or if I don't know a word so I can look it up and many other things
Captions are deaf-initely useful
I love captions! I can't remember the last time I watch something on Netflix without them it's so helpful and it doesn't distract at all from what you're watching.
I have used captions ever sense they came out. Didn't realize how useful they are for more than the deaf community. Wow!
I find this super important as well! If I'm just listening to something I often get distracted and lose track of what was happening but if I can read the subtitles I'm more likely to pay attention
AH! Dancing Jessica End Slate is back!
I used to have hearing problems and subtitles were lifesavers. These videos have been super helpful because whenever I make a video for school I subtitle it and get the teachers to turn the closed captions on. I think the fact that I know how to use RUclips subtitles has given me a better grade than I deserved sometimes
When I started being in noisy environments more frequently last year, and me with a heavy dislike of noise canceling earbuds, I grew a true appreciation for good captions.
Yay!! CC are awesome also for non native english speakers like us. Some accents are hard to listen sometimes.
Anime is a perfect example of why cc/subtitles are NOT intrusive. Great video, keep up the good work!
" Captions! Problem Solved!" So true ❤ I really liked all of your examples and explanations of why good captions are so vital.
Preach!! I am not even hearing impaired but I love having subtitles/captions on everything, I never realized how much stuff I miss particularly in films until I started watching with captions.
I don't understand though why some people are bothered by them.
I'm just so used to look at the bottom of the screen for subtitles/captions everytime I watch something that's not in my native language 😂 That's why I love subtitles!
I have used captions for years. I am hard of hearing, and LOVE that you have the good captions. It is sooo nice. Your example of what You hear is SPOT on. Exactly how I hear videos too.
This is amazing! I love how this video is edited and how you talk about this subject. This could easily be a teaching video, but not a boring one! :D
Now this is exactly the kind of video that should be on the youtube trending page! You know, one that actually contributes something good/useful to the world
I’ve been wanting to start captioning other people’s videos for a while now to make them more accessible and had no idea how to go about doing that, so these videos are going to be SO USEFUL 💕💕
Such an amazing video can’t wait for the rest of the series!!
Yes! The series ive been waiting for since last year's series of videos!
What a great series!! Can't wait to see the upcoming videos!
I suffer from ADHD and when I’m having a bad day I NEED captions because I won’t absorb enough of what i hear. I need to both read AND listen to absorb enough information to understand. RUclips auto generated are okay but tbh it is much easier when there are captions on a video and I’m very grateful.
Sooo good!!! Thanks Jessica! Can't wait for the rest of the series :)
Captions are soo important! I struggle with hearing dialogue in videos when there is any background noise and it’s even harder because English is not my first language. So thanks for the captions, hopefully more and more youtubers will use them!❤️
Took my headphones out after watching this video lol... got so used to having them in, I wear them for everything I’m listening to. Having captions seems to be healthier for my ears too 😅
Great video and the dancing in the end is adorable!
thank you for making this video im so happy that someone has finally decided to make this video its so important and i don't see why no one else has thought to make it
Fabulous as always
Great food for thought Jessica! I'm looking forward to the next videos
This was quite interesting. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank you Jessica.
This is a very entertaining (as well as informative) video! Thank you.
this is fantastic! thank you for making this
The first video I ever watched on your channel was part of your Week of the Deaf series last year. Can't believe it's been a year already. Love you channel! Love your content!
Jessica, I just want you to know how much I appreciate your videos. You have fantastic style and a good heart. Thanks.
You are such an amazing speaker and teacher :)
I am thinking to include captions in my videos!
I have no issues with my hearing, but captions are fricking amazing. It means I can enjoy videos with poor audio, turn down the sound when watching at night and easier get the point when there is a word I don't know yet.
You can see how much work has gone into this. It’s amazing and I’ve learned so so much. Thank you for this, loved it as per usual❤️
Great video Jessica! Very impressed with the edit and content, keep up the great work.!!!🙌💛👍
This is the most delightful instructional video ever.
This is so beautifully done! That dress is gorgeous! I love captions because they help me pay attention! I can watch a movie with captions that I had previously seen without captions, and I am always shocked at how much I missed! I’m so grateful that you are addressing this important topic! And I love the dancing at the end! Yay!
Yeah I love it when youtubers caption their videos. I don't have any hearing problems, but I still use captions from time to time. When I am at work and not really supposed to be watching videos, I will play a video on my phone and just have the captions on since I can't turn the volume on. I also find that I can focus on the information in a video better with the captions on. Sometimes I will watch a video and halfway through it I'll realize that I didn't really even hear anything the person said (especially if it's an educational video for school or something). If I turn the captions on I tend to focus more on the actual words being said, so I retain more.
I’m so so excited for this series!! I have always wanted to have cc on my videos but the companies that do them are so expensive that I thought I’d never be able to...but if I could do it myself then I would be well away! Thank you again lovely I’m excited to make all my videos accessible to everyone xx
I'm going to use this for my own channel now! Thank you for the inspiration!!
I have mostly APD and well as being half deaf. My fiance consistently forgets and will make fun of my TV being too loud, or will say "Can we turn off the subtitles? They're distracting." He doesn't mean to be mean. He just forgets, and I get it. When you dont experience something, it's hard to forget it could even BE a roadblock.
Great info, Jessica! Thank you for doing so much to educate everyone about what it means to be deaf.
I have ADD and captions help SO MUCH. I nearly always turn them on, otherwise, I tend to zone out! Great job! Love your channel!
Such a great deal of fantastic information. This will help when I start my channel.
I started using captions more since coming across you, and oh boy! Did it increase my video watching ability. I can watch your youtube videos anywhere and anytime and feel like im not bothering anyone because i have the sound off.
I'm so looking forward to the rest of this series! I already caption my videos, but I want to make sure I'm doing it right! Most of what I've learned is from watching RUclips with captions on to see what proper captions look like. Also, they help me focus.
If I become a teacher I will definitely show your videos to classes you're so good at explaining things!
thank you jessica, maybe creators will understand why captions are sooo important! I'm very glad when I find channels like yours in which videos have captions, because as a not native english speaker it's easier for me to understand and also improve my english! with love from Italy 💕
great first video! I've been considering subtitling videos that me and my friend have done and posted, but after watching this I want to do it even more. I'm looking forward to the rest of the videos coming this week!
Captions also helps people who want to add subtitles in a foreign languaje, they make the job waaay easier.
Great vid!
Maybe something you can touch on in the subsequent videos on captioning is that [at least on YT] the viewer can move the caption box around on the screen. I just learned this a few weeks ago and it's massively helpful on annotated videos where the caption box might overlap the video text. For example, if the video maker puts their annotations at the bottom of the screen [such as news chyrons], I can drag the caption box to the top of the screen so I can still see what they've written; if that covers the person's face then I drag the caption box to the side of the screen.
I'm slightly hard-of-hearing and have auditory processing issues so while I can still hear well in perfect conditions, if there are any other noises [especially background music, which seems to be the bane of my YT existence], or if the speaker is mumbling/has an impediment or an unfamiliar accent, etc. then I struggle to understand, so captions are really helpful. [For the record I've never had trouble with your background music, perhaps because my eyes are trained after 25 years of caption use to read them, and you tend to enunciate clearly. :-) ]
I love your videos in general but I also just love there's a place I go that I know will not just have captions but great captions and that's comforting. I have a problem with dissociating and tuning out all sound and so it is great to come here and know I don't have to be able to hear to enjoy youtube content.
I am of normal hearing but I love captions! Even more than subtitles because they allow you to enjoy content anywhere with all the drama and clarity of the audio. Right now I (and many like me) might choose Netflix over RUclips because captions are more common there so this is a great move for the site as a whole!! Love your videos!
Ok but why isn't this video going viral already?? Another masterpiece from our beautiful Jess!! Love you 😘
Love this series already! As a person who still learns British English in school it is very helpful to be able to check on a word that I mispronounce to see what is really spelled compared to what I though it was spelled. And I know that not so long ago I was one of the many people to rather click on a video that had subtitles( told you that they teach us British English), just to be able to concentrate more and understand properly. Thank you for sharing the importance of subtitles, hope this kind of message reaches everyone ❤
I love this! I’m not deaf but I watched to this video without sound to see what captions were like in a video like this. Great😍
I am convinced!!!!! I'm going to caption ALL my videos now on!
Working in a very noisy environment when I was younger caused some hearing loss (I can’t have a conversation in public transports, annoying but bearable), so yes I considerably have lowered my use of headphones. I also enjoy a written display of some sort at work, it helps me understand and go past those who prefer talking and commenting rather than listening (ugh!).
I have found your channel because of your videos for the International Week of the Deaf last year. Those videos were so informative and useful! And now there's another series from you, so I'm really happy. Honestly, I'm learning so much about deafness, thank you! ❤️
And yes, captions are really useful when you're learning new language. English is a foreign language for me, so it's much easier to understand some English speakers when I can read captions (:
Yes!! I'm not personally deaf/HoH but I really prefer having captions or subtitles on anything I'm watching because of a lot of things you mentioned in this video. Some reasons include not understanding other accents properly, just not capturing every line and missing important plot aspects, or the sound/audio just being bad. If there are captions/subtitles available I'll choose that option every time!
Just started going back and adding captions to all my videos. It's highlighted how poorly structured what I say can be at times, and I'm hoping with this new form of feedback will make my videos of a higher quality. Totally unexpected benefit to adding captions! Also its great for all the reasons you've stated :) as a side note I've just showed my mum this video and she adores you.
OMG this is so well made and so well elaborated upon! I knew you were good, but not this good!
Yess Jessica 👍👍 back at it again spreading the information everyone needs. But seriously tho im hard of hearing and in school and when watching videos in class my friends used to moan about the sub titles but now thay love them as it helps them👍👍 it a win win😂
Very informative and interesting. Thank you! I'm looking forward to watching the rest of your videos about captions as they are very important and useful for everyone, not just people who are hard of hearing (and they're not obtrusive at all, Dad!)
I don't have any hearing problems but I often turn on captions on videos when I'm watching them on my tablet while tidying my room. It means that if I move heavy things or rattle boxes etc, I don't miss out on important parts of the sentence in the video. I also find them helpful if the speaker has a particularly strong accent or mumbles certain words sometimes.
This was stellar!
Oh my god, your outro is adorable.
Also, captions help me a ton; I have incredible attention issues, and my hearing is poor. They help me focus better, I've never understood why people say they're intrusive.
Great video, thank you!
Yes!! I have a tiny amount of hearing loss but I also have an attention and processing disorder so reading captions helps me on so many fronts!!! also if I have lupus brain fog it keeps me engaged!
Loved the video!