YouTube applies automatic video captioning
YouTube is bringing something new for their avid viewers specially for millions of deaf Internet users. The extended automatic caption capability will only apply to English language videos on YouTube.
Before, users of YouTube manually add captions to videos since 2008, and in November of 2009, the site began applying the auto-caption feature. This special feature, uses speech-to-text technology to be able to generate captions.
The inspiration of YouTube to make this feature possible are the people with hearing disabilities or who speak different languages. Meanwhile the Google vice president Vint Cerf, and also the chief supporter for captioning capability made a personal appearance at the unveiling of YouTube auto-caption features at Google’s Washington offices in November. Cerf, who is hearing impaired has been known as the "Father of the Internet."
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