{"id":8468,"date":"2009-11-20T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2009-11-20T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T21:33:24","slug":"automatic-captions-in-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/automatic-captions-in-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic captions in YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Automatic captions in YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n

11\/19\/2009<\/p>\n

Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we’ve
\nintroduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even
\nautomatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal
\nsignificance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also
\nbecause I’m deaf. Today, I’m in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider
\nthe most important and exciting milestone yet: machine-generated automatic
\ncaptions.<\/p>\n

Since the original launch of captions in our products, we\u2019ve been happy to
\nsee growth in the number of captioned videos on our services, which now
\nnumber in the hundreds of thousands. This suggests that more and more people
\nare becoming aware of how useful captions can be. As we\u2019ve explained in the
\npast, captions not only help the deaf and hearing impaired, but with machine
\ntranslation, they also enable people around the world to access video
\ncontent in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even
\nenable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.<\/p>\n

However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge
\nof scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect
\nevery video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to
\ntheir videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on
\nYouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still
\ninaccessible to people like me.<\/p>\n

To help address this challenge, we’ve combined Google’s automatic speech
\nrecognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer
\nautomatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice
\nrecognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions
\nfor video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video
\nbelow for an amusing example), but even when they’re off, they can still be
\nhelpful\u2014and the technology will continue to improve with time.<\/p>\n

In addition to automatic captions, we\u2019re also launching automatic caption
\ntiming, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions
\nmanually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to
\ncreate your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple
\ntext file with all the words in the video and we\u2019ll use Google\u2019s ASR
\ntechnology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for
\nyour video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners
\nwho want to add captions, but who don\u2019t have the time or resources to create
\nprofessional caption tracks.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how to use auto-caps and auto-timing, check out this
\nshort video and our help center article:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/youtube\/bin\/answer.py?answer=100077<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTvHIDKLFqc<\/a><\/p>\n

You should see both features available in English by the end of the week.
\nFor our initial launch, auto-caps are only visible on a handful of partner
\nchannels (list below*). Because auto-caps are not perfect, we want to make
\nsure we get feedback from both viewers and video owners before we roll them
\nout more broadly. Auto-timing, on the other hand, is rolling out globally
\nfor all English-language videos on YouTube. We hope to expand these features
\nfor other channels and languages in the future. Please send us your feedback
\nto help make that happen.<\/p>\n

Today I’m more hopeful than ever that we’ll achieve our long-term goal of
\nmaking videos universally accessible. Even with its flaws, I see the
\naddition of automatic captioning as a huge step forward.<\/p>\n

* Partners for the initial launch of auto-caps: UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT,
\nYale, UCLA, Duke, UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic, Demand Media,
\nUNSW and most Google & YouTube channels.<\/p>\n

Posted by Ken Harrenstien, Software Engineer<\/p>\n

Source:
\nhttp:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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