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Title: YouTube Captions to Use Technology from Google Voice Post by: Alex on November 20, 2009, 10:21:13 AM YouTube Captions to Use Technology from Google Voice
In a move meant to boost accessibility and search engine relevance, Google has announced an automatic captions service for YouTube videos, using the "automatic speech recognition" (ASR) technology currently used in the transcription feature of Google Voice. Although YouTube has long offered options for content providers to upload their own captions and subtitles, few have chosen to do so, with just around 100,000 captioned videos available out of hundreds of millions of clips posted on the site. Although Google admits that the machine-generated captions "will not always be perfect," they see the introduction of the technology as a positive step in providing content to deaf and hearing disabled users. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/as07Ulw_lWg/youtube-captions-to-use-technology-from-google-voice |