Participatory Culture Foundation

Dear Manish Jain,

You can do that humanly with Amara. For longish videos, it's usually simpler to start by making captions (subtitles in the original language) and then translate them. For shorter ones, you can directly translate from the video. Either way once your translated subtitles are ready you can download them as TXT i.e. without time codes.  You can get started here: https://amara.org/en/videos/create/

Now if you want something more automated, there are solutions outside Amara. Please note that the more automated the process, the more unsatisfactory the result:

1. Fully automated (error prone): you upload the video to YouTube (YT), wait until the YT software has produced automatic subtitles; you download them from the video's admin interface -> Captions or Subtitles tab, and then you get them automatically translated from YT.
2. Corrected captions (more accurate): you upload the video to YouTube, wait until the YT software has produced automatic subtitles; you edit them into accuracy from video's admin interface -> Captions or Subtitles tab.
3. YT automation & Amara (easier editing & translation): Like 2, but download the subtitle file from YT and upload to Amara; use the Amara editor to improve the captions and/or add translated subtitles.

In addition to Amara, there are other tools that might help with improving YT automated captions, for instance NoMoreCraptions or DIYCaptions. Try both and see if either suits you better.

I hope this helps a bit,

Claude Almansi