YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All

Posted by timothy on Friday March 5, 2010 @05:55PM 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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Re:Noteable, but still very much experimental by Idiomatick · 2010-03-05 21:23 · Score: 4, Interesting

"One hopes that applying it to Youtube will help Google improve the accuracy."

This, if they allow for corrections it could be an incredibly huge resource of data for google. They'd end up with people spending millions of man hours teaching google how to do voice recognition. And having highly accurate voice recognition would be a boon for society generally.