Text Captions to Be Added to YouTube Videos
Google unveiled new technology to automatically add text captions to YouTube videos, The New York Times reported.
The technology can only add English-language captions thus far, but Google told the Times its automatic translation system will enable users to read the captions in 51 languages.
The captioning technology will roll out later this week, initially to only a few channels that specialize in educational content, but expanding gradually, Google told the Times.
Ken Harrenstien, a deaf engineer who helped to develop the automatic captioning system, told the Times:
This is something that I have dreamt of for many years.
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