[CEUD-ICT] You Tube to caption all videos

[Donal J. Rice]

Hi Mark,
These caption's are to be based on Google's  automated speech recognition
(ASR) technology in conjunction with something that will sync the captions
up to the video.

My tuppence is that machine translation looks to me to be the future here
given the costs and time involved in captioning manually.  However whether
this will be of use for people with a hearing impairment on the web will, I
think,  come down to issues of quality and reliability.

Obviously this move is driven mainly from the SEO side  - Goolge being an
SE after all! - as opposed to being a Google strategy to make YouTube more
accessible (unless I've missed something in the reporting of this move.)
Google ad words are not something I know a whole lot about but I imagine
once a certain level of consistency and reliability is achieved in the
captions, it may be sufficient for advertising purposes.

Regards,
Dónal.


                                                                           
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>From the New York Times via enn.ie:

YouTube is to offer automatically generated captions for its entire video
catalogue, a boon for deaf users and those who want to watch videos in
other languages. At a press conference, Google software engineer Ken
Harrenstein demonstrated the feature and went through the reasons Google
invested in the product -- from expanding accessibility to crossing
language barriers to improving search. YouTube users can see available
captions by clicking on a button in the lower-right-hand part of the video
player. They can also choose to see captions in a different language from
the language of the video. Harrenstein, who is deaf and gave his
presentation in sign language, said he has been working on the product for
the past five years.



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