Youtube's parents company Google has announced on its blog that automatic caption are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only found on 13 channels. These include National geographic, Columbia, as well as most Google and Youtube channels. The software engineer behind the technology Ken Harrentier, is deaf.
Currently, Youtube offers a manual captioning services but video makers tend not to use it. The current step aims to combining automatic speech recognization with the recent current caption system.
The translation is not always perfect, but the technology will comtinue to improve with time. Alternatively users can upload a transcript of their video and auto-timing algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken.
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