YouTube Adds Automatic Caption Support In Six European Languages

German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Dutch speakers will now be able to take advantage of YouTube automatic captions feature. As of today, the online video giant has added these six languages to their translation repertoire.

German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Dutch speakers will now be able to take advantage of YouTube automatic captions feature.  As of today, the online video giant has added these six languages to their translation repertoire.

Previously automatic captioning, which first launched in 2009, was available in English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

Hoang Nguyen, YouTube software engineer, writes on the YouTube blog, “Now in 10 languages, automatic captions are an important first step in the path toward high-quality captions for the 72 hours of video people upload per minute.” 

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