YouTube Tests Automatically Adding Chapters to Select Videos

Nov. 25, 2020

If available broadly across the platform, it could be a boon for all creators and save a lot of time, which can be used to improve your content. How is the machine learning algorithm going to auto-generate video chapters you ask?

YouTube explains that its machine learning algorithm will“recognize text in order to auto-generate video chapters.”This means if you clearly demarcated where you start talking about what topic via title slides or lower-thirds, then YouTube will be able to automatically enable video chapters support.

This AI-generated ‘video chapters’ feature is currently available for select videos. The company does not specify what kind of videos or creators it is enabling this feature for, however, it will be interesting to see how accurately it works. If you have received this feature, do share your experience with us in the comments below.