Learn how to translate YouTube videos using ChatGPT!

1. What is ChatGPT? Introducing what it can do.

1-1. What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a very large language model developed by the non-profit organization OpenAI. This model utilizes artificial intelligence to communicate with users in a chat format. ChatGPT mainly learns from a large amount of text data available on the internet, and its ability to generate natural-sounding sentences similar to those written by humans is its main feature.

1-2. What you can do with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can have conversations like a human, create emails, blogs, and scenarios, generate ideas, summarize long texts, and translate, depending on the instructions (called prompts). It can also be used for information retrieval, proofreading of text and code, creating proposals, creating templates for presentation materials, and generating programming code. For more information on how to use ChatGPT for translation, please see the following article.

"What is ChatGPT's translation ability? Thoroughly verified in each step of the translation process."

2. ChatGPT translation also supports videos

2-1. What is ChatGPT Translation?

ChatGPT is learning multilingual data on the internet and is capable of translating between languages. In addition to English, it supports Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Thai, Indonesian, and more. However, there is no official information from OpenAI about the supported languages. It is said to support 50 or even 100 languages.

To translate, write "Translate to <translated language>" and then enter the text to be translated. ChatGPT will automatically detect the language, so there is no need to specify the language of the original text. For example, when translating the paragraph above, it will look like this:

Please refer to "3. Translation Accuracy" in the following article for the translation accuracy of ChatGPT.

"Introducing how to translate words, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, emails, etc. with ChatGPT!"

2-2. ChatGPT can also translate videos

You can use ChatGPT to translate videos. There are two ways to translate subtitles included in videos and to transcribe video audio and translate the transcribed text. For more details, please see below.

3. How to Translate Video Subtitles with ChatGPT

As a method for translating video subtitles with ChatGPT, we will introduce how to translate Japanese subtitles into English subtitles and add English subtitles. For this, we will use YouTube Studio. YouTube Studio is a free analysis and management tool for your own YouTube channel provided by Google.
Access and use it at https://studio.youtube.com/ in your web browser.

1. To download subtitles, click on the "Subtitles" menu on the left side of YouTube Studio and then click on the desired video. Next, click on "Edit" next to the language you want to edit in the "Subtitles" menu. Click on "Options" (three vertical dots) and then click on "Download subtitles" to download the subtitle file. You can choose from the formats .vtt, .srt, or .sbv for the subtitle file.

2. Open the downloaded subtitle file in a text editor. Press the Ctrl+A key to select the entire text, then press the Ctrl+C key to copy the text to the clipboard.

3. Access ChatGPT on your web browser. Type "Translate to English" and press Shift+Enter to create a new line, then press Ctrl+V to paste the text. Press Enter to execute the translation.

4. Copy the output of ChatGPT. Create a new file in a text editor, paste the text and save it. The file extension must be the same as the downloaded subtitle file. If you downloaded a .srt file, the extension of the saved file should also be .srt.

5. Return to YouTube Studio, click on the "Add Language" button, click on "English", and then click "Add" (the pen icon). Click on "Upload File", "With Timecodes", and then "Continue" in that order, and select the subtitle file created in Step 4 to upload. After that, click on "Publish" to make the subtitles public.

4. How to Summarize and Translate YouTube Video Transcriptions

Introducing a method for summarizing subtitles using "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude". "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude" is a Chrome extension that displays and summarizes subtitles for YouTube videos. You can install it here.

1. After installing "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude" on Chrome, a button called "Transcript and Summary" will appear on the top right of the video when opening YouTube.

2. Open any video on YouTube and click on the "Transcript and Summary" button.
The transcript of the video will be displayed.

3. Click on the ChatGPT icon at the top of the screen to open ChatGPT in a separate window, where a summarized subtitle will be displayed. If you are not logged in to ChatGPT, please log in to ChatGPT.

To translate the results of 4.2 or 3 to another language, copy the text and open ChatGPT in a separate window. Type "translate to English" and press Shift+Enter to create a new line, then paste and execute the translation.

5. How to Transcribe and Translate Video Files

If you have an MP4 video file, you can use Word to transcribe it.

1. Create a new file in Word, click the down arrow under the "Dictation" tab on the "Home" tab, and then click "Transcript".

2. Select the source language and then click "Upload Audio"
to select an MP4 video file.

3. It may take some time for the upload and transcription, so please wait for a while and the transcription results will be displayed.

4. Click "Add to Document" and then click "Speaker and Timestamp" (or "Text Only") to add transcribed text to the body of the document.

To translate with ChatGPT, press the Ctrl+A key to select the entire text, then press the Ctrl+C key to copy the text to the clipboard.

6. Access ChatGPT on your web browser. Type "Translate to English" and press Shift+Enter to create a new line, then press Ctrl+V to paste the text. Press Enter to execute the translation.

6. Summary

ChatGPT supports multilingual translation and can translate subtitles and audio for YouTube videos. To translate subtitles for a video, use YouTube Studio and ChatGPT to translate Japanese subtitles into English and create new subtitles. Additionally, using the Chrome extension "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude" allows for summarizing and translating transcriptions for YouTube videos. If you have an MP4 video file, you can use Word to transcribe it and then use ChatGPT to translate it.

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