[WebPub] YouTube to Add Two New Closed Captioning Services

[David J Conlon]

A great endcap to our great presentation yesterday by Stephani Roberts from
MIT¹s ATIC <http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/>  and CJ Johnson from 3Play Media
<http://3playmedia.com/> , the New York times published this article
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/technology/internet/20google.html>
yesterday about new features coming to YouTube.

Google will begin rolling out service the end of this week that will
automatically generate text captions to many videos on its site!

YouTube has supported closed captioning on the site already, but this new
service will allow users to upload a video, the closed captioning will be
automatically generated, and allow the owner to review accuracy of the
closed captioning before the content is published.

The service will be piloted on a limited number channels at first, including
channels from Stanford, Yale, Duke, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic,
Google itself, and our very own MIT! Google hopes to gradually expand that
number.

If you¹re interested in closed captioning your own video, Google also rolled
out another service that allows anyone who uploads a video to YouTube the
option of uploading a text file of the words spoken in the video. This
service then ³auto-synchs² the text file and the video, turning the text
file into captions and automatically matching the spoken words with the
files.


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David J. Conlon
Web and Database Consultant
Departmental Consulting & Application Development - Client Support Services
Information Services & Technology (IS&T)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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