Leveraging AI for Translating English-Captioned YouTube Videos into Regional Languages
YouTube is often the best player in the world of video for entertainment, education, and information. However, most users experience problems in aspects such as downloading videos to perform offline analysis or simply due to poor Internet connectivity or academic purposes. There is also a growing need for automated captioning translation and multilingual access for non-native speakers and non-local users. The research proposes, therefore, the development of an adaptive translation system that deals with YouTube movies extracting captions from video, translating the captions to a specific language, and synchronizing audio video with the translated text along with the original captions. Most of the public existing tools would fail because YouTube sources keep frequently changing. Most of these problems have minimal performance accuracy in captioning or fail to download the captions. The proposed methodology has been imagined to overcome these using AI and ensure performance improvement across various environments It will helpful application for blind users, users seeking knowledge from inclusive education, and those wishing to learn using their mother tongue or overcome language barriers. Advancing toward the vision of national language interaction ensures that people from different languages can enjoy video content regardless of their mother tongue. The future of this application will be a blend of AI-based media processing with a well-designed architecture for future-proofing to improve digital accessibility and to provide a mean scaled-down replacement for real-time language translation in video content.
Authors
- Hima Varshita Reddy. S -
- Sanjay Swaminathan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5315-6445)
- Nagendra Kumar D
- Santhana Hari S
- B Manorohith
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icdsaai65575.2025.11011636
- Primary Topic
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00