Hello.
I was able to import videos with auto-generated subtitles from YouTube before. Recently I came back to LingQ and I decided to learn English using LingQ again and I noticed that I am not able to import some videos from YouTube.
Is there a way to fix the problem? I am pretty sure that I could do that before.
Thanks for reading.
Yes, due to changes made by YouTube recently, importing auto-generated subtitles doesn’t always work. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about it at the moment.
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I see.
Thanks for the response.
This is an old issue, but seems to still be a problem.
I can easily do some clicks on the youtube page and manually get a file of the of the auto-generated subtitles, with timestamps. Not sure if what I have is in .srt format, but I could easily fix that.
Is there no way to import such a youtube video and manually add a subtitle file to the imported lesson? (I can manually create a lesson and add a youtube url as a resource, but this seems to lack the functionality of lessons created by actually importing the youtube video.)
Also, I see there’s a workaround that allows for using youtube audio as a lesson, but this seems to be without the video. Is that right? (How to import Youtube videos without captions ). This seems less than ideal, and it seems like quite an easy workaround to import the video and audio without captions and allow the user to load a self-created .srt file.
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@hesitz When importing a lesson manually, for example if you import YT audio and generate the text, you can also add video URL in a lesson editor to have a video available too.
We’ll see what can we do on our end to make improvements regarding importing flow you suggested.
Hi Zoran, I remember LingQ can generate transcript for youtube videos even without auto-generated captions. Is this feature removed?
Thank you. Unless I’m missing something, with the workaround you suggest there is no way to sync the video to the audio or text within Lingq. You can play the video, yes, but without syncing that isn’t very useful.
Whereas with the method I suggest, I assume it would have the same syncing that exists for the full youtube imports?
@LinVega Importing videos without subtitles was never possible, but there is a workaround: How to import Youtube videos without captions
@hesitz Even for lessons you import manually, audio and text, it will still be synchronized with timestamps.
@zoran. Thanks for clarifying. I was a little confused. I didn’t think the video was synchronized when it was done with the previously published workaround. Now I see it is. Interestingly, Lingq seems to play the imported audio when the video isn’t playing, but plays only the audio from youtube when the video is open, though it’s synchronized so the result should be the same.
Still, the step of exporting/importing the audio, generating subtitles seems more cumbersome than just allowing user to upload a subtitle file to a lesson with a video resource.
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