More Than 1 Billion YouTube Videos Have Automated Captions
YouTube users watch more than 15 million videos with automated captions each day
Caption this: YouTube announced Thursday that its automated captions have been used on more than 1 billion videos, and its users watch more than 15 million videos with automated captions per day.
Product manager Liat Kaver made the announcement in a blog post, saying that Google launched captions for videos in September 2006, and the process was automated for YouTube videos a little over three years later, in November 2009.
Kaver discussed steps YouTube and Google have taken to ensure that captions are accurate, as well as future goals, in her blog post, sharing the images below of captioning via YouTube previous and current models, respectively:
A major goal for the team has been improving the accuracy of automatic captions—something that is not easy to do for a platform of YouTube’s size and diversity of content.
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