The Google I/O live video stream will be accessible to hearing-impaired viewers and search engine crawlers alike, thanks to a new live captions feature unveiled by YouTube today. The feature combines manual transcription with automatic translation and will be available to any YouTube Live partner. Read more »
The Universal Subtitles project launched an early test version of its captioning tool in collaboration with the Mozilla Labs design challenge. The tool allows users to watch videos with subtitles in many different languages and also add their own captions through a nifty online subtitle editor. Read more »
YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers who are hearing impaired or speak different languages around the world, and to do that the company has begun automatically adding captions to all of its videos, it announced today. The video site has a pretty aggressive rollout […] Read more »
