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YouTube Videos to Wear Captions

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Posted on Nov 20, 2009
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The captioning technology will be rolled out later this week and gradually expanded, Google says.

In a boon for the hearing-impaired as well as non-English speakers, Google has announced it will soon plug in new technology that automatically adds text captions to many videos on its YouTube site. It will allow videos to be searched through text, rather than keywords.

The New York Times:

In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies on Thursday that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site.

The technology will also open YouTube videos to a wider foreign market and make them more searchable, which will make it easier for Google to profit from them.

While the technology can insert captions only on English-language speech, Google is giving users the choice of using its automatic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages. That could broaden the appeal of YouTube videos to millions of other people who do not speak English but could use the captioning technology to read subtitles in their native language.

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By NYCartist, November 20, 2009 at 9:05 pm #

I heard about it on “Off the Hook” Wednes. night on WBAI.  Bernie S., of the hacker show, said that it’s based on technology that’s still developing and is using synthesizer speech, which will have many mistakes.  I am really looking forward to cc close captioning on YouTube as well as transcription of whatever kind.  I am losing my hearing, but due to CFS/ME, I like reading while I’m online.  “Off the Hook” is archived free 90 days at http://www.wbai.org
(Note: I support the “undo the coup” movement at WBAI and PacificaRadio - see http://www.takebackwbai.org and “latest news” link.)  “Off the Hook” is produced by 2600 Magazine and is at http://www.2600.com

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