Google Adding Automatic Captions to YouTube Videos

I think it is pretty damn cool that Google has decided to add automatic captions to YouTube videos. It is as easy as creating a text file with all the spoken words in the video and Google’s speech recognition technology does the rest. Because the speech-recognition technology is still a work in progress, Google is launching the automatic captioning service on the YouTube channels of just a handful of partners, including PBS, National Geographic and a few big universities. But the company promises that the technology will improve over time — and it hopes for a much broader rollout. Comments