YouTube for the hearing impaired
Posted by Manuela Barreto @ March 5th, 2010 in Media News
Google’s user-generated video website, YouTube, will make available automatic speech recognition captioning for its video selection.
This new service could be revolutionary since it will open up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired, and will also lead to creating a network of videos that could be subtitled between many languages.
comScore’s January 2010 press release regarding online video usage reported that 170 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month of November.
Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in November with nearly 31 billion videos (viewers watched an average of 182 videos per viewer).
This feature will not only help out the hard of hearing, it will make them feel connected to society, especially one that continuously communicates itself through online video.
YouTube has offered closed captioned videos in the past, however, the captions were provided by the video producer, and represented a very small share of YouTube’s database.
Today, the new speech recognition technology will allow for automatic transcriptions on all of YouTube’s videos, even if a few funny errors happen to pop up here and there.
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