Automatic captions
 on YouTube
Associated Press
Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site. The service, being launched this week, is intended to make online videos accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired.
Hundreds of thousands of videos on Google sites already contain caption tracks that users have created and added manually with Google’s existing captioning service.
Google is tapping into the speech-recognition technology that it uses for its Google Voice call management service.
Google is launching the service on the YouTube channels of just a handful of partners, including PBS, National Geographic and a few big universities.
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