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YouTube adds automatic captions for the hearing impaired, lovers of the mute button

The new feature uses speech recognition technology to caption any video uploaded to YouTube.

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Computing | by Samuel Axon | Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:30PM | 0 comments

YouTube now uses the same voice recognition technology (called ASR) used for Google Voice to automatically generate captions on any video on the site. When you upload a video you can now include a text transcript to avoid errors, too.

Cooler still, the site can translate the captions on the fly into any language supported by Google's existing machine translation technology. The auto captions are rolling out to certain content partners this week, with a wider release coming sometime soon. The text transcript option is available to everyone as of today, though.

Look below for a demonstration video.


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