YouTube introduces automatic captioning for all videos

By at 3:05 pm Thursday, Mar 4

Big news for video creators/uploaders who use YouTube (including us at Boing Boing Video): Today, YouTube launched automatic captioning for all videos, using Google's speech recognition service. Until now, automated captioning was offered only to a handful of education partners, as a test phase. I'm very excited about what the rollout means for the deaf, and for possible translation applications.

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