YouTube introduces automatic video captioning
November 22nd, 2009
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YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find.
The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of the relatively high cost of doing so. However, YouTube’s parent company Google has now decided to use the automated transcription technology from Google Voice to produce captions.
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