Google plans to add two new features to YouTube videos: automatic captions and automatic timing. These options are aimed to help people who are deaf or hearing-impaired and also people who want to watch videos in other languages. On Saturday at the press conference in YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, Google's software engineer presented new features and talked about reasons why Google wants to invest in this project.
Captions has been available before since 2008, but only for particular Google's partners, such as University of California, Berkeley and Yale University. Now closed captions are in all YouTube videos, thanks to new technology that Google invented, which recognizes speech as long as audio in the video is clear enough.
The second new option is automatic timing that allows users to upload captions without timing to their clips.
I think that the idea is great and should be very fast developed. Now YouTube videos are accessible for people with hearing problems and for people who want to watch videos in languages others than their first language. On the other hand, I have tested new features myself, and obviously it leaves a lot to be desired. The speech recognition is not perfect and Google translations are usually bad and difficult to understand. But I still think that this project is a good concept and it will improve as the technology develops.
Source: Wall Street Journal
I think that the idea is great and should be very fast developed. Now YouTube videos are accessible for people with hearing problems and for people who want to watch videos in languages others than their first language. On the other hand, I have tested new features myself, and obviously it leaves a lot to be desired. The speech recognition is not perfect and Google translations are usually bad and difficult to understand. But I still think that this project is a good concept and it will improve as the technology develops.
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