Lets face it, Captions are great. They not only help us to understand stuff said or being portrayed in a video but also turn out be useful especially for the deaf and hearing impaired. Now with the power of machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.

Today Google‘s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system, allows us to sit back a relax and let the machine put the captions for us. In addition to automatic captions Here is a good video showing the new technology.

Google is also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we’ll use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don’t have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks.

I loved it, really good features for video authors and people with disabilities.

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