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What is YouTube™ Dual Caption?
YouTube™ Dual Caption is a browser extension designed to enhance the viewing experience on YouTube by displaying two sets of subtitles simultaneously. This tool aids in language learning and comprehension by allowing users to view captions in two different languages at the same time.
It intelligently prioritizes existing video subtitles over machine translation when available, ensuring accuracy. Users have extensive control over the appearance of the subtitles, with options to customize font style, size, color, background, spacing, and display order for both dual and single subtitle modes. The extension also features sentence merging capabilities to provide smoother playback and more coherent subtitle timelines, addressing issues with choppy sentences often found in automatically generated or translated captions. Additionally, it allows users to download the subtitles, respecting the chosen display order and optimized timing.
Features
- Dual Subtitle Display: Shows two sets of subtitles simultaneously on YouTube videos.
- Customizable Styles: Allows users to adjust font, size, color, background, spacing, and order for both dual and single subtitles.
- Smart Subtitle Selection: Prioritizes existing video subtitles over machine translation when available.
- Sentence Merging: Fixes choppy playback by merging subtitle sentences and optimizing timelines.
- Subtitle Download: Enables downloading of subtitles, respecting display order and optimizing timelines.
- Video Quality Lock Control: Allows users to lock or unlock video quality settings.
- Right-Click Menu: Enables right-click operations on subtitles for copying.
- Draggable Subtitles: Improved handle for easier dragging of subtitles.
Use Cases
- Learning a new language by comparing native and target language subtitles.
- Improving comprehension of videos in a foreign language.
- Watching educational content with subtitles in two languages.
- Assisting viewers with hearing impairments by providing clearer, customizable captions.
- Translating and understanding video content for research or personal interest.
FAQs
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How does YouTube™ Dual Caption choose which subtitles to display?
It prioritizes using the existing subtitles provided with the video. If suitable existing subtitles aren't available, it resorts to machine translation. -
Can I customize the appearance of the subtitles?
Yes, you can customize the font, font size, color, background color, spacing, and the order in which the subtitles appear. -
Does the extension help with choppy sentences in subtitles?
Yes, it includes a sentence merging feature designed to fix choppy playback and optimize subtitle timelines for better readability. -
Can I download the subtitles displayed by the extension?
Yes, the extension allows you to download subtitles, maintaining the display order and incorporating timeline optimizations. -
What if I only want to see one subtitle track?
You can switch the extension to a single subtitle mode, and you can set the style for this single subtitle track independently.
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Average Response Time
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