YouTube has been continuously adding small but really useful functionalities to their main site after the major makeover. I don’t know whether you already know about this or not, but YouTube has added a functionality to translate the video captions to your own language. The functionality is still in BETA but works considerably well.

It’s a simple two step procedure:

• If there are captions available for a video, you will be able to see its icon ‘CC’ at the bottom of the video. Click it and then select ‘Translate Captions’.

• Now select your desired language. Click OK.

Enjoy the captions in your language.

You may have also noticed the ‘Transcribe Audio’ option which essentially performs speech recognition and gives you a dubbed audio in your selected language. I have tried this but feel like it needs to be tweaked to a larger extent. Anyways so far so good. What say?