Automatic Captions In YouTube

November 19, 2009 · Print This Article


Automatic Captions In YouTube

It looks like Google has just made YouTube a lot more accessible to dead and hearing-impaired folks. With robotic captions (auto-caps) in YouTube, captions can be processed through Google’s robotic speech recognition (ASR) technology to offer motorized captions to the videos. It uses the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice. Of course, the captions certainly won’t be perfect, but we’re certain they’ll be a big help. It’s currently only able to insert captions on English language speech, but Google has been

cool ample to offer users the choice to use its robotic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages, now how cool is that? Check out the official details here.

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