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Google technology enhances YouTube captions
On the computer screen, young David sways drunkenly, his one remaining front tooth poking his bottom lip as he talks. "I feel funny," he moans. "Is this
real life?"
The YouTube video of a disoriented child feeling the drugs from his dental surgery got a lot of attention earlier this year, but plenty of people didn't get the joke - captions for David's existential ramblings were not available to deaf and hearing-impaired users.
That's about to change, and it's a development that goes beyond access to videos of drugged children, Kanye West behaving badly, or pirated episodes of Top Model. Google
announced yesterday that it will incorporate automatic, machine-generated captions into all English-language YouTube videos. Although captions have been available on the site since 2006, they had to be provided by the video's owner. Now voice recognition technology can insert captions.
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