YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All

adeelarshad82 writes "Google's YouTube announced that it has moved its automatic speech-recognition and closed-captioning technology out of beta and has now made it available to the YouTube community at large. Most, if not all, YouTube videos now include a 'CC' button that, if pressed, will automatically generate the closed-captioning technology. The technology processes the audio feed using the speech-recognition technology used in the core voice search feature that has also been built into the Android voice search feature, the GOOG-411 phone search, and other products."

Comments

Automatically generate the technology?

[Mr2001]

Talk about advanced! Back in my day, we had to pay engineers to generate technology for us!

Re:Automatically generate the technology?

[nebaz]

Feeling feeling = Feeling.getFeeling(Feeling.LAUGHTER);
feeling.express();

Re:Automatically generate the technology?

[Hurricane78]

No! I’m not from Soviet Russia!

CC this...

[flogger]

I looked but I can;t find google's CC button for this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech.

[Mr2001]

My funniest one:

"Hello voice subscriber what. Hey if you few questions for you. They can feel me 6 like a year like 2 years ago to like forever. Go you came over and I was locked out of the password didnt know the password so much and we wanted. Anybody passed it. I don't know how you guys have a good i just took it out for the first time in years and it says your class is expired. I must be changed and I go to that the windows X P professional you went and dollar dishing whatever it is really old addition, windows 85,001 yet and it's give me a change. Faster screen and says, administrative, which is still around. Funny has got hold us for new password. I confirm you got through. I've any idea what the password again, 30, or if you're more than the who knows no idea what it would've been so if you tell me but sister for you know the next week, otherwise, I was gonna go out to confirm for some a long time, so if you should come pick the and a case."

Let me guess, Youtube.ru

[santax]

reads the caption and then produces the video?

Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech.

[jargon82]

I'll never forget the time I was playing with dragon (the speech recognition software), and it seemed to pick up an obsession for the word "orange"... Mall was orange. Bus was orange. Elephant was Eggplant, but that's a pointless tale for another time...
Meanwhile, speech recognition still fails, and google voice is just the worlds best demonstration of why :)

Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech.

[John Hasler]

I know people for whom the examples in this thread would be accurate transcriptions...