YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All

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."

As long as they don't use GVoice Tech.

[bennomatic]

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.

Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech.

[bennomatic]

True. I think that Google should put an app on their Android phones that recognizes when someone is connected to a GVoice vmail box, and does the recording and processing locally. I figure that'd make a much more accurate translator.

Interactive Transcripts vs. Captions

[syke1911]

I'm trying to understand the difference between an interactive transcript, as seen at protranscript.com, and a caption. Why did Google go the embedded captioning route? Isn't the goal to create searchable content? If so, captions don't seem to be the solution.

Search?

[Spy Hunter]

I haven't seen any mention of search, which seems odd. Google is adding captions to every YouTube video, and nobody is interested in whether you'll be able to search the captions or not? Seems to me like it could be quite useful to search the captions of every video on YouTube.

Re:The once and future Deaf accessible internet.

[aussie_a]

I almost never turn on my speakers and yet I find the internet quite accessible.

I'm not saying this isn't a great development. But to try to portray the internet as inaccessible to the deaf before now is ridiculous.

Re:Noteable, but still very much experimental

[crossmr]

and then some company will come along and sue them for not being competitive because they have access to all this great data to make fantastic products other companies can't make.