Unfortunately the technology even the best of it is not up to the task as
someone who has used dragon speaking naturally, and indeed the technology
supposedly built into adobe's latest editing suite it renders much of my
speech, and indeed my contemporaries as garbage, it's not up to regional
accent, or unusual stress patterns in speech, and has to be trained on
individual speakers to improve accuracy.
There is a further danger in automatic subtitling, in that it may in some
instances obscure the pre-existing subtitles and text already there thus
defeating the object.
The problem is that a machine is attempting to do what humans ought to, but
I doubt Google cares because all they want is not really clarity but PC
brownie points.
Larry
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> YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
> By Maggie Shiels
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> 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.
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> The Google-owned company said this use of speech recognition technology is
> probably the biggest experiment of its kind online.
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> Previously captions were only on a small amount of content.
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> "A core part of YouTube's DNA is access to content," said the firm's
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> 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".
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> Initially the feature will apply to English language videos, with other
> languages being added in the coming months.
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> In November last year, YouTube rolled out automatic captions to a handful
> of partners including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale
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> 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.
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> "I have been working on speech technology for 25 years," Mr Cohen told the
> BBC.
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> "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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