Displaying captions on a video can be useful in many ways. It’s of great value to a hearing impaired or deaf person. Moreover, if you’re watching a video recorded in a language that you don’t understand, captions can be very useful to understand it. YouTube is the most popular site on the Internet to share your videos. Those who watch YouTube videos may be using different languages, and some of them may be hearing impaired also. It is in this context that adding captions to YouTube videos has been helpful, and today hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos already support captions. Now, YouTube has made it more easy to add captions to your videos, since now it will support automatic captions on YouTube videos.
Machine-generated automatic captions can now be added to the YouTube videos. The fact that 20 hours of videos are uploaded every minute at YouTube, shows the enormity of the task of adding manual captions to such great mass of videos. Many of the users who upload their videos at YouTube may not have sufficient time or the necessary expertise to add manual captions to their videos. It is here that the machine or the software will again come to the rescue of us, the human beings.
The machine-generated automatic captions would not be perfect and there would be mistakes; however, the process of adding captions to YouTube videos will become quite simple now. And, moreover, over a period of time, the automatic speech recognition technology (of Google), which will be creating these automatic captions, will improve with experience and new innovations.
Automatic captions feature will now ensure that all YouTube videos can have captions that can help people understand the videos in any of the 51 supported languages, and moreover, this feature will definitely help the hearing impaired people.
Captions on all YouTube videos will also improve search capabilities since now it will be easier to search a video by the text captions, and moreover, the captions will also allow users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.
Yet another new feature that has been added to YouTube is to improve the ability to create captions manually. A new feature, namely, automatic captions timing, or auto-timing has been added to YouTube. Now, even if you want to create manual captions for a video, all you have to do is to create a simple text file with all the necessary words in the video and these new technologies will figure out when the words were spoken and it will create captions for the video. Therefore, even those people who don’t have any special expertise to create captions manually in YouTube, will be able to create them easily without spending too much time and with little resources at their command.
You can watch the following YouTube video to learn more about these new features of auto captions and auto timing:
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