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YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter
BBC News
Silicon Valley
Page last updated at 01:33 GMT, Friday, 5 March 2010
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550830.stm>
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.
YouTube said by opening all this content to those who have not really been
able to access it in the past should democratise information and "help
foster greater collaboration and understanding".
Initially the feature will apply to English language videos, with other
languages being added in the coming months.
In November last year, YouTube rolled out automatic captions to a handful
of partners including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale
University and National Geographic.
'Real solution'
The technology behind speech recognition has been around for about 50
years, said Google engineer Mike Cohen, and has finally become good enough
to be used on a large scale.
"I have been working on speech technology for 25 years," Mr Cohen told the
BBC.
"There have been steady improvements and this is the culmination of lots
of work over years and years. We have had to work on a wide variety of
problems like accent variation, background noise, the variation in
language, in pronunciation."
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