Google has announced a plan to use speech recognition technology to automatically bring text captions to millions of YouTube videos, making them accessible to people with hearing impairments and making them more searchable.
Analysts expect the change to open the videos to a wider foreign market and potentially make them more profitable.
Engineer Ken Harrenstein, who helped develop the translation system, said it was imperfect but “will continue to improve with time.” Harrenstein, who is deaf, said in a Google blog that the majority of user-generated content on Youtube has been inaccessible to “people like me.’
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