I came across an article called “YouTube adds video captions for deaf” on the BBCNews which is really interesting.
The article is about the next innovation that will be used on Youtube, the most popular video website on the internet, which is caption on video. The project is aim for helping the deaf to understand what exactly is on the video, since Youtube is very useful in its content. Youtube already rolled out the automatic caption for its partner earlier last year. They’ve been working on the technology for years and it’s still not a hundred percent complete but it will prove to be helpful. According to the article, the response from the deaf is positive, they are glad that they can participate more in the world.
The article is about the next innovation that will be used on Youtube, the most popular video website on the internet, which is caption on video. The project is aim for helping the deaf to understand what exactly is on the video, since Youtube is very useful in its content. Youtube already rolled out the automatic caption for its partner earlier last year. They’ve been working on the technology for years and it’s still not a hundred percent complete but it will prove to be helpful. According to the article, the response from the deaf is positive, they are glad that they can participate more in the world.
I think this technology is very helpful not only for deaf people but also for people who are not native speakers, too. Sometime I wish there are captions on Youtube because the person on video speaks real fast and I can not catch the whole thing he’s saying. It will help a lot for people who are not very capable of listening skill and it also helps audiences to know exact words which are said, sometime even native speakers misspell words. However, as the article mentions, it’s still not perfectly accurate. I just hope that it’s not something like Google Translate because Google Translate is a big joke, it translate a perfectly good sentence into nonsense thing. Maybe, it’s the right decision that they only focusing on develop the caption in English, first.
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References
Shiels, M., YouTube adds video captions for deaf. (2010,March 5). BBCNews, retrived on Mach7, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550830.stm
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ReplyDeleteI wish Youtube include close caption in as many video as possible. Now, I can find only very slight number of video that have caption. However, it would cost a lot more for Youtube if they want to create close caption on their own. Maybe, the producer of the video should be encouraged to do so. I have heard that in the USA most TV programs are required to broadcast with close caption for disable people. In future, video in Youtube should be under such regulation too.
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