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If captions or subtitles are available on the YouTube video, these will be displayed for all users,
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and can be controlled using Able Player's CC button. Alternatively, if you include your own
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`<track kind="captions">` elements, these will be used *instead of* the captions on YouTube.
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Starting with version 3.2.13, Able Player no longer requires a YouTube Data API key in order to access caption tracks from YouTube. However, an API key is still encouraged, as it relies on well-documented methods from Google,
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whereas operating without an API key relies on methods that are not well documented, and therefore
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may not be reliable.
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The advantage of managing captions entirely on YouTube is that you only have to manage them in
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one place, and they're available everywhere your YouTube video is played.
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Also new in 3.2.13, Able Player now handles YouTube captions in the same way it handles HTML `<track kind="captions">` elements. The display of the caption text can be customized via the Preferences menu, and the caption text is used to automatically create an interactive transcript.
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The advantages of including captions locally in `<track>` elements include:
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YouTube does not currently support chapters, descriptions, and metadata tracks. With Able Player, these features can be added to the video using HTML `<track>` elements, even if the video's captions and subtitles are stored on YouTube. The advantage of managing captions entirely on YouTube is that you only have to manage them in one place, and they're available everywhere your YouTube video is played.
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If your video has HTML `<track>` elements for captions and subtitles, these will be used *instead of* the captions on YouTube.
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- Able Player can repurpose the captions into an interactive transcript
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- The captions are searchable using the **data-search** attribute
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- Users can control how the captions are displayed (e.g., color, background color, opacity)
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Adjustable playback rate is available for some videos.
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