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YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All

Posted by timothy on from the nation-of-lip-readers-knit-their-eyebrows dept.

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."

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  1. The once and future Deaf accessible internet. by flerchin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Huzzah! Now if we can just get subtitling/captioning on Netflix streams, the net will be accessible to the Deaf again.

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  2. Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Phone audio quality is generally much poorer than online videos, in my experience.

  3. Noteable, but still very much experimental by Coopjust · · Score: 3, Informative

    The results are still very funny, especially for non-English speakers.

    However, it's a technology that is still relatively young. One hopes that applying it to Youtube will help Google improve the accuracy.

    However, except for spoken videos with a native English speaker with absolutely no background noise, it's nothing more than a novelty at this point. Trying this on several videos not only yielded hilarious results, but delays of several seconds in some cases.

  4. Re:Search? by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indeed; here's an example search showing caption results. I'm just surprised that, of the several articles "covering" this story that I've seen, none have mentioned (even in passing) the applicability of universal captioning to search.

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  5. Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. by TheJokeExplainer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Parent is referring to Google Voice's less-than-perfect voicemail transcription technology which often leads to odd or hilarious transcriptions.

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