With a click of a button you can now see what’s being said on YouTube videos. ADHEREL
Announced today, YouTube’s captioning on its videos will now be available on a wider basis in English, with future languages coming in the pipeline.
From thier blog, here are some more details:
* While we plan to broaden the feature to include more languages in the months to come, currently, auto-captioning is only for videos where English is spoken.
* Just like any speech recognition application, auto-captions require a clearly spoken audio track. Videos with background noise or a muffled voice can’t be auto-captioned. President Obama’s speech on the recent Chilean Earthquake is a good example of the kind of audio that works for auto-captions.
* Auto-captions aren’t perfect and just like any other transcription, the owner of the video needs to check to make sure they’re accurate. In other cases, the audio file may not be good enough to generate auto-captions. But please be patient — our speech recognition technology gets better every day.
* Auto-captions should be available to everyone who’s interested in using them. We’re also working to provide auto-captions for all past user uploads that fit the above mentioned requirements. If you’re having trouble enabling them for your video, please visit our Help Center: this article is for uploaders and this article is for viewers.
YouTube will now automatically convert English speech into text on all upload videos. Of course this is a great news for the hearing impaired and it helps those who do not have speakers or maybe do not want to use the volume (perhaps you are at work or on a plane).
Auto-captioning was launched last November as a beta.
