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"YouTube, Now With Automatic Captioning"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Good news for folks with hearing impairments and folks who don't have hearing impairments but sometimes just can't figure out what other people are saying (that would be me.) YouTube announced last week that YouTube videos (at least those in English which have voices clearly speaking and aren't drowned out or muffled by background noises, music, etc.)

Apparently there are twenty hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute (which personally I find mindbending) so as you might imagine it'll take a while for everything to be autocaptioned...

...the transcriptions are machine transcriptions as well -- so you know they won't be perfect either. Owners of posted videos can download auto-generated captions, correct them, and upload new versions. If your videos have not been captioned yet, you can also request that they get the captioning treatment -- a "Request Processing (English Only)" button lets you put your video in the queue, while YouTube assures you "We will try our best to get some results in a few days."

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Source: Research Buzz, 8 March 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).