Youtube Subtitles generator

This repo contains the source code for generating the Youtube subtitles in multiple languages. The input file is a .vtt file. This is generated from Youtube video subtitle. The default language is English. This input file is converted to multiple languages uses Azure Cognitive service named Translator.

Prerequisites

Create the Translator service in Azure.

Follow the documentation to create a new instance of Translator service in Azure.

Get the API key and store it in the Machine level environment variable

Retrieve the API key for Translator from Azure portal and store it in an environment variable. I have used Powershell to add the environment variable. You can use any other approach to create an environment variable named TranslatorAPIkey.

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('TranslatorAPIkey','YOUR__API__KEY', 'Machine')

If you are on MacOS, you can store the API key in the .bashrc or .zshrc file as an environment variable.

export TranslatorAPIKey="<<replace_with_your_PAI-key>>"

List of Languages for subtitles

The subtitles are translated into the languages listed below. For the complete list of languages supported by the translator service, refer to the documentation.

Language code	Language name
af	Afrikaans
sq	Albanian
ar	Arabic
hy	Armenian
bn	Bangla
bg	Bulgarian
zh-Hans	ChineseSimplified
hr	Croatian
cs	Czek
da	Danish
nl	Dutch
fil	Filipino
fi	Finnish
fr	French
de	German
el	Greek
he	Hebrew
hi	Hindi
hu	Hungarian
id	Indonesian
ga	Irish
it	Italian
ja	Japanese
ko	Korean
ms	Malay
my	Myanmar
ne	Nepali
nb	Norwegian
fa	Persian
pl	Polish
pt-pt	Portuguese
ro	Romanian
ru	Russian
es	Spanish
sv	Swedish
th	Thai
tr	Turkish
uk	Ukrainian
vi	Vietnamese

Create project using YouTube Data API

Follow the instructions in the YouTube Data API and create a project in the console

Watch the two YouTUbe videos listed below to know how to generate and upload subtitles in multiple languages.

References

• Youtube Data API v3 Client library for .Net

YouTube videos

How to generate Youtube subtitles in multiple languages using Microsoft Translator

How to programatically upload Youtube subtitles in multiple languages