Official Videos Subtitles/Translation

[Latin-Foxy]

Hello! It's my first time doing new discussions so I hope to do everything right!

The request is simple, there are many viewers of Google Youtube videos that don't have the English knowledge necessary to listen and understand some videos, and sometimes there is just no time to make a new video in Spanish or [Insert any other language here]. So it would be great to have some subtitles at least of the important info. Freelancers, contributors or any other way that's Google's business, but if somebody from Google staff reads this, feel free to contact me! I'm a young publicist who would love to collaborate to make this world of the local guides more integrative to everybody.

EDIT 14/6: Thanks to  Francisco-RS I think that it would be a lot better to have:

1) As I said at the start of the topic, subtitles in different languages, I'm sure that Local Guide staff would get a good idea to get some contributors.

2) Native language, It's cool the fact that English is an international language and helps everybody to understand no matter what native language you speak, but we are a community that wants to show hidden corners of this awesome world, or just want to make things easier in big cities to tourists, and the native language of any place is also part of its beauty, part of the culture, and should also be highlighted.

This is the official channel of Local Guides where you can check all the videos they upload:

Local Guides Channel

And here is a short list with a few examples, you can see that doesn't matter the country or age of the video, there are not subtitles of the dialogs or texts.

Links to just a few of them:

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskg9COsUgM

(Just English and Portuguese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDNfWfILl4

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJLqEbSNe8

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkhvIPeIi6Q

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHPpJuxXfdo

[Francisco-RS]

All the official videos where people is "talking" have subtitles 

[Latin-Foxy]

I'm sorry, maybe Im not talking properly? I mean the official videos from Youtube, that includes guides and some nice Local Guides experiences.

None of the videos, even the guides or tutorials, have subtitles.

Links to just a few of them:

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskg9COsUgM

(Just English and Portuguese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDNfWfILl4

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJLqEbSNe8

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkhvIPeIi6Q

(None)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHPpJuxXfdo

And like that, all the channel needs subtitles.

[Francisco-RS]

I think is related with the Date of the Vide idk, but yes We Need Videos in Native Language, in my case, If you are doing a video for Mexico why you put a video in english, do it in spanish and subtitle to english... Local Guides Mexico dont grown .. I think this is one of the reasons why..

[Latin-Foxy]

Even the recent videos doesnt have subtitles.

When I was making you that small list I took a look to videos from Mexico to see if they added english subs and, woops! I wasnt expecting them to be in english too! Thats a real shame, because you want to show a place, and the native language is PART of that place!

So... I'll edit my post... asking for SUBTITLES and more videos with the NATIVE LANGUAGE of that zone!

[Massima]

I agree! Subtitles are extremely helpful.  

BTW, Good first post 🙂  

It is great that you have listed the YouTube links here in your post, providing examples of the need for subtitles.

[Latin-Foxy]

Thank you very much Janice! 🙂

As a young publicist, It's just my way to see some things. Why should we stop here when we can get a lot more help and users of this tool and community?

[Massima]

Yes! The room for growth is amazing!  And I totally like and agree with your point about using the verbal NATIVE LANGUAGE WITH ADDED SUBTITLES IN English​, etc.

I hope more and more people will do this.

 It is a fun and very useful/important community here on LG.  

[Latin-Foxy]

Let's hope this gets more views then and gets to the hand of staff!