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YouTube adds captions to videos

article published on 5 March, 2010

YouTube has announced the launch of automatically generated captions for all its streaming videos, a new feature that should help both deaf users, and those who want subtitles for videos in other languages. Google software engineer Ken Harrenstein, who has been blogging about the eventual launch of the captions, showed off the new feature at a press conference. Harrenstein is deaf, and ... [ read the full article ]

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nonoitall
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_ 		5. March 2010 @ 16:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Tried it out yesterday. Could still use some work... :-D
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videows
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_ 		10. March 2010 @ 08:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is certainly a welcome addition. especially useful where the audio is not clear or if a video is in a foreign language. Hope YouTube users will exploit this feature for the benefit of other users.
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champman
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_ 		11. March 2010 @ 21:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What I've done with my videos where there is a lot of talking, I've added subtitles at video production stage rather than added as an after thought.

A nice step in the right direction and Youtube/Google are getting very clever. Would be interesting if it could make out my friends great accent which is very broad Scottish.
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