Smart captioning on You Tube!
Sunday, April 4th, 2010This was recently announced, “Google is trying to make YouTube a more accessible service to viewers who are hearing-impaired. On Thursday, 3/4/2010 it announced that it’s turning on its auto-captioning technology to all users–a move it hopes will make videos both easier to watch and find in its search engine. Video providers are now able to apply for machine transcription on their own videos. And for videos that have not yet been transcribed, a user can request it themselves. YouTube then puts it in a transcription queue, which can take anywhere from an hour to a day–a time Google is trying to make as fast as possible.”
Now that’s thinking universal design!!
