YouTube Auto Captioning featured on Beet TV

Daisy Whitney from Beet TV interviews software engineer Ken Harrenstien about the new automatic caption and automatic timing features in YouTube.

Reposted with permission from Beet TV.

See the full article at http://www.beet.tv/2009/12/youtubeautocaptions.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ken harrenstien
• captions
• youtube
• accessibility
• yt:cc=on

[TheVarietyGuy]

That guy's shirt is so cool, says "GOOGLE" in sign language.

[FernandoSRamirez]

this guy looks like the medic from TF2

[rgrannell1]

the captions are usually pretty funny

[VundaF]

Beet TV? IT sounds familiar.

[macdtv]

I use the cc on my videos, and captions display on my caption and subtitles setting page, but when I switch to my channel view, cc is not available. For example, as I watch this video,(YouTube Auto Captioning featured on Beet TV ) I cannot access the captions, I get the same message "captions are not available" and a red exclamation mark.

[sheinasmama]

Why isn't this captioned?

[videocritter]

If YouTube's machine-transcription doesn't work for you, you can try VideoCritter, a new nonprofit website with a slick and easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool for created human-generated captions. It supports Unicode so it can handle non-English character sets.

[lnternet]

this guys prob a sick pop and locker or tutter yo

[nefets99]

press teh caption button on the right and watch it fail on their own video

[fireslat]

so it improves search-ability on youtube?

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sending troops there to billy I mean it's you know

[sn4kp4k]

@FernandoSRamirez hahaha good call. I love playing the medic

[MeatFeastLive]

1:36 CAPTIONS ATTACK!

(Auto Captions)