Google has announced that it has developed a new feature which allows YouTube to automatically generate closed captions for submitted videos.
The service’s new Auto-caps feature harnesses automatic speech recognition (ASR) to computer-generate closed captions from a video’s audio stream. Users who submit a video when the service goes live will automatically be given the option to see their video with and without CC. The results aren’t perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction.
The Auto-caps feature will be going live in English by the end of the week, and developers plan to add other languages over time.
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