

Using the search box on YouTube to search for your particular topic or phrase results in a list of results. Two common methods are a search on YouTube or a link in a blog post or social media update to a specific YouTube channel. People find their way to YouTube videos in different ways. Two Ways to Discover Whether YouTube Videos are Close Captioned Note: it’s possible the methods were available in the past and I overlooked them.īut knowing the different ways I can confirm captioned videos makes it a lot quicker for me to discover interesting videos to help me with my work. When I was searching YouTube videos last week, I discovered some quicker methods to identify videos with closed captions.Īnything to eliminate multiple steps is a win to me! If neither case was true, I knew the video only had autocaptions.

Or whether more than one language was noted in the parentheses. Check the Subtitles/CC (Closed Caption) option to see if a specific language (I check for English) was referenced.In the past, when I wanted to confirm YouTube videos had English captions, I took multiple steps: Only to learn the video has no closed captions. As someone who only watches captioned videos, I get frustrated when I find an interesting YouTube video.
