YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All 102
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from the nation-of-lip-readers-knit-their-eyebrows dept.
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."
The once and future Deaf accessible internet. (Score:2, Informative)
Huzzah! Now if we can just get subtitling/captioning on Netflix streams, the net will be accessible to the Deaf again.
Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. (Score:3, Informative)
Noteable, but still very much experimental (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Search? (Score:3, Informative)
Indeed; here's an example search showing caption results [youtube.com]. 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.
Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. (Score:5, Informative)