How to add CC (captions/subtitles) to youtube videos?

With my first attempt at speaking on camera, I decided I want to lean how to add CC to my video.  

I think it's a great thing to do as it expands the audience that the video can reach.  I started watching movies with CC when I was living with international ESL students, and I found it was awesome to be able to understand what they are saying on screen.  

I also suspect that having human-entered subtitles helps google and youtube know what the content of your video is about.  The bots can read the subtitles like they read text on a webpage, and having the CC human-entered instead of auto-generated probably adds a huge amount of googlelove to the video because google feels we really care about sharing our video with as large an audience as possible.  According to the first video, adding CC increases your views by 40%!

With that said, here are some videos that were recommended to me about adding CC to youtube videos.  Why.  How.  What not to do.



Oh my goosh, this video was awesome!  So much on how captions can help grow your chanel.  

Got to watch this next one which is about how to do it.

Here's my first attempt at adding CC to a video.

Did it work?

It might be my tablet, but I am not getting any CC.

John F Dean wrote:It might be my tablet, but I am not getting any CC.

there should be a button to turn them on.   not sure what it looks like on a tablet.

I saw this service mentioned on a tutorial.  Haven't tried it: https://www.rev.com/

The prices seem competitive but I can't see anything about jargon.

My videos have a lot of craft-specific words (diz, hackle, ret...) that have multiple spelling options (dizz, hekel, rett...) which change depending on where we are in the world and what decade we are in.  Not to mention uk vs us spellings, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.

Because there are so many ways to spell these words, I have a specific book I use as my standard and a specific style guide to reference when there is any doubt.  Little things like hand spinning.  Within the craft, handspinning is one word, even though most modern grammar checkers will insist that it should be two.

When I find a captioning service, I want to make sure that I can keep the spelling and vocabulary consistent throughout my work.  That's going to be hard to find.