Wednesday, March 10, 2010

YouTube Auto Captioning

YouTube adds auto captioning  to uploaded videos as a new service.
  
Captioning has been available for YouTube for a long time, but required the uploader to do a manual transcripton and manual time coding.

In November of ‘09, YouTube announced an auto captioning feature using the Google Speech Recognition engine.  It was restricted to a few “beta” testers.  The auto captioning feature is now available for all YouTube uploads.

To activate closed captioning, look in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen.  Clicking on the up arrow will show three buttons.  The middle button is labeled CC .  Clicking this will turn on closed captioning if it is available.

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