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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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