Investigate Subtitles (Positioning) On Youtube for Video Translation

[nelsonic]

Nǐ hǎo péngyǒu! 😉

As a person whose first language is not English
I would like to see subtitles in videos
so that I can understand the content!

While we may be used to seeing "everything" in English (observer bias) the fact is that most people in the world don't speak English so we need to plan for multiple language (translation) early to ensure we can include as many people as possible!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

English is the 2^nd most popular language:

(because of all the people who learn it as a second language)
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world
and/or watch: https://youtu.be/epBuWRld4ws

If we want to reach a wider audience, we should facilitate (community) translations
e.g: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-school

Also, let's not forget people who are audio-impaired and know (how to read) english but cannot hear the sound in our videos ... i.e. this is super-important for accessibility!

Note: we (the video creators) aren't going to do the transcription and translation of our videos, we will make the tool(s) to let the community pitch in!

Todo

• Research YouTube Translations: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6289575?hl=en
  (what can be translated, are there any good examples of videos which have been translated, or which have multi-lingual support? please summarise your findings)
• Research video Subtitles: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en
  (please investigate what we need to do to add subtitles to our videos and summarise key points)
• How much space do we need to leave at the bottom of the video(s) to accommodate subtitles?
• Test applying subtitles to one of our videos (e.g. intro to Tachyons)