Auto-captioning for YouTube’s videos

6th March, 2010 by adina
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According to official sources, YouTube is currently developing a new feature which will be allowing hearing-impaired visitors to fully benefit from the video-hosting website. The website has been preoccupied to bring captions to videos, so now YouTube will offer automatic captions to all of its users. The cautions specific to the hosting site will determine the captions for all its videos to take longer until they will be available. Despite this, the visitors are allowed to request processing to speed up the caption-creation feature for the videos.

For a start, captions will only be available for videos with English, clearly-spoken and noise-free audio. Auto-captions will probably not be accurate all the time, even if YouTube claims that the software is continuously improving.

Users will have to manually enable the auto-captioning process for their video clips. One comment on YouTube’s announcement said that the new software picks up about 75 percent of the words; it also says that the video may have included inaccurate audio, allowing for self-editing too.


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