Google Inc.’s YouTube said it will offer automatically generated captions for its entire video catalog, a boon for deaf users and those who want to watch videos in other languages.
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Google research scientist Mike Cohen said the captioning technology blends Google’s speech-recognition and translation algorithms.
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I've tried to see the feature working at YouTube, but couldn't find the option. May be is not yet released for Argentina?
Italy
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Nothing yet here from Italy either.
Romania
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Just another on of Google's failed attempts to imitate real translation?:)
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i saw the feature working. one word: useless
United States
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You have to press the little red CC button:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGs26QQBEw&feature=channel
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Thank you Jeff. I think it will be useful for non-professional videos, it will help to get more audience.
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I've watched a video this morning with CC option, and was ... hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztfG_ltWwNw
CC feature doesn't make a good work on that video at all.
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Thanks Gaston,
However, to be fair, even I have trouble understanding Sean Penn's incoherent rambllngs.
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