Google Announces Automatic Captions on YouTube

In Washington, DC, Google announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your video, you can upload it to YouTube and we'll time the captions for you.

Over 60 accessibility leaders from the National Association of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, AAPD and other organizations joined us to be the first to learn about these new features.

Read more about the announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• accessibilty
• youtube
• captions
• subtitles
• google
• ken harrenstien
• naomi bilodeau
• vint cerf
• jonas klink
• yt:cc=on

[shadowfax273k]

Captions on most videos are completely wrong

[julialuvsjesus]

To Vint Serf-V.P.: Use a Lazar Pointer for pointing to the screen, or a really long stick. Just don't point the Lazar in other's eyes-it does eye damage. I like the captions for music videos where I can't hear the lyrics. Thanks, Google and YouTube! :)

[xx24x7xx]

40k views on a video by google?

[leizlferrer2]

@NBNProductions1 she signing and shes deaf

[VundaF]

The Girl is really cool, she knows how to sign language.

[taehee522]

good

[TheKevolutioner]

Captions only works for Google for their videos only like this one. What a selfish, inconsiderate company.

[CrossDude001]

@NBNProductions1

It's called interpretive dance. :)

Actually, it's ASL for the people that need captions.