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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. As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Or you'll end up with captions like this:

    Hey glum, Jen tonight. It's apologize for it, interrupting our conversation in early as this afternoon, yes, so I wanted to returning your call and you know check in with you further. Alright, hope you, I hope you're doing well done. Sounded like you, works but alright. Well I'll call me later. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.

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    1. 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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  2. Automatically generate the technology? by Mr2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. CC this... by flogger · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Re:Noteable, but still very much experimental by Idiomatick · · 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.

  5. Let me guess, Youtube.ru by santax · · Score: 4, Funny

    reads the caption and then produces the video?