Video clips on YouTube to have automatic captions

Posted on: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:00 EST


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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
GOOG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Google Inc. on Thursday
announced that video clips on YouTube, the popular video-sharing
website it bought in 2006, will soon include machine-generated
automatic captions.

The automatic captions will be added for videos through the
combination of Google's automatic speech recognition technology
with the YouTube caption system.

In addition to automatic captions, Google said it is adding
another feature called "auto-timing," which enables YouTube users
to create a simple text file with all the words in a video,
leaving Google technology to figure out when the words are spoken
and create corresponding captions.

Both features will be available in English by the end of this
week with automatic captions initially visible only on a handful
of YouTube's partner channel, Google said.

"We hope to expand these features for other channels and
languages in the future," Ken Harrenstien, a deaf Google software
engineer, wrote in a posting on the company's blog.

Captions in videos not only help the deaf and hearing impaired,
but can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the
exact parts of the videos they're looking for, Harrenstien noted.

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