YouTube adds captions. Find out why.
YouTube adds captions. Find out why.
YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos. The feature provides viewers a deeper understanding of a video. Adding captions and subtitles makes a videos more accessible to people who can't follow along with the audio—either because they speak a different language, or because they are deaf or hard of hearing.
The feature unveiled Thursday expands upon speech-recognition technology that YouTube began using to make captions available on a limited number of videos late last year.
YouTube's audience will be able to request captions at the press of a button. Video producers will also be able to download the automated captions and improve upon them.
For now, YouTube's captioning tool will only work on videos with English audio, although there are plans to include more languages. The English audio, however, can be translated into 50 different languages.
YouTube, owned by Google, is the Web's most popular video site. Its users upload about 28,800 hours of video each day.
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- Posted on March 5, 2010
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well think that, that is a good idea, because people need to watch what they say these days. Many people like to say things on the Internet that they think funny, but they might say something that doesn't match the subject. So i think it is a good idea.
I think that's a good idea, if people don't understand what their saying they can just read the captions. Like they said, if people are deaf or can't hear well they can easily just read the captions. Even though the captions get annoying there's good reasons why they are there.
There is a specific reason why they would put captions on YouTube. It has captions because if people can't understand a language they can just turn the captions on and they would understand it. The language on youtube comes in English, Spanish, french, German, Japanese, and Chinese. Youtube added caption because if they can hear and can't understand what they are saying they just play the video and turn on the captions. My opinion would be that captions are a great idea to have for people who can't hear and can't speak a language.
That is a lot of hours of video a day because that is about 1200 days worth of video. I think it is a good thing for people and YouTube because more people can use it.
I think it's a good idea, because then the people that can't hear very well, or can't hear at all can still use YouTube. I think that will be great for people that speak English, but the people that speak a different language won't get to use the captions and subtitles.
I think this is a good idea...BUT what about for American to Japanese?! I think that you-tube can make it better if they get stuff like that! I think that because I watch A LOT of anime and other stuff that's in different languages on you-tube!
I think to add captions in YouTube is good idea because many people don't understand what the video saying so they can understand. And it will make more views or members to YouTube. So i think to add captions is good idea.
I think youtube does many thankful things to help get places on tyhe internet faster. Yesturday I was on and I got to find videos and websites faster with the caption.
I think this is a wonderful idea. It really opens up YouTube to a lot more viewers and members. It will even help in classrooms.
YouTube doesn't need captions. All people are going to do is make fun of it or make mean comments on the captions. Either that or they should correct the comments so they are acurate.