YouTube Expands Automatic Captions To Spanish Videos

This morning YouTube announced that they are expanding their language accessibility to include automatic captions in Spanish. Spanish language videos with recognizable speech should now have a “CC” button at the bottom of the player that you can click and choose “Transcribe Audio” to instantly caption the videos using YouTube’s auto-captioning technology.

This morning YouTube announced that they are expanding their language accessibility to include automatic captions in Spanish.  Spanish language videos with recognizable speech should now have a “CC” button at the bottom of the player that you can click and choose “Transcribe Audio” to instantly caption the videos using YouTube’s auto-captioning technology.

Hoang Nguyen, YouTube software engineer, writes on the YouTube blog:

“The hundreds of millions of Spanish speakers in the world are the latest to see the auto-caption feature, adding to other available languages of English, Japanese and Korean. 

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