YouTube provides a free, user-friendly interface for captioning and transcription without the need to download or learn new software.

The following step-by-step guides walk you through three ways of captioning a video that you have uploaded to your personal YouTube account.

1. Create your own captions.
   
   • Type up your own transcript and synchronize it to the video.
     
     
2. Edit automatic captions.
   
   • Automatic captions should never be used unless you correct them in this way.
     
     
3. Upload a caption file.
   
   • When using captioning vendors, upload the returned caption file to your YouTube video.