Thursday, August 28, 2008

YouTube Announces Closed Captioning Feature

YouTube just announced a new feature that allows people to add closed captioning to their videos. This is a move that will allow people to increase their audiences both to people who are deaf and those that speak another language. As useful as this tool will be, I believe they should have just put this effort into their technology that automatically transcribes videos (http://www.bermanpost.com/2008/07/google-makes-politicians-speeches.html). Once they role that out for all the videos on their website they can automatically add closed captioning to all the videos instead of requiring users to do it manually. They could use their translation technology to add the automatic closed captioning in different languages.


http://www.youtube.com/blog
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=mi8D3ntPgFQ

"Here at YouTube, we're always trying to find new ways to enrich your viewing experience and to help video creators reach a wider audience. As part of this goal, we've added a new captioning feature which allows you to give viewers a deeper understanding of your video. Captions can help people who would not otherwise understand the audio track to follow along, especially those who speak other languages or who are deaf and hard of hearing."

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