Mar 04
Tags: captions, deaf, speech recognition, Videos, youtube, youtube features
YouTube is making the tens of millions of videos it hosts more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing by putting automatic captions on them.
The Google-owned company said this use of speech recognition technology is probably the biggest experiment of its kind online.
Previously captions were only on a small amount of content.
“A core part of YouTube’s DNA is access to content,” said the firm’s product manager Hunter Walk.
More on BBC News
October 12th, 2010 at 11:17 am
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