VIDEO: YouTube gets automatic captions

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20 November 2009 11:34 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

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Google has used its automatic speech recognition tech, as seen in Google Talk, to offer machine-generated automatic captions across all of its YouTube videos.

"The captions will not always be perfect", says Google, "but even when they're off, they can still be helpful - and the technology will continue to improve with time".

Google is also launching automatic caption timing that it says makes it "significantly easier" to create captions manually by creating a text file with all the words which then uses Google's ASR tech to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for the video.

Both features are demoed in the official video above - hit play for the explanation.

Via: googleblog.blogspot.com

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