Captioning Now Available on All YouTube.com Videos
As of March 4, 2010, most YouTube.com videos will have a CC button on it that will allow users to view automatically generated captions. What a treat for deaf or hard of hearing people who – up until now – have been shut out of YouTube videos.
The speech recognition technology is far from perfect, but Google, who owns YouTube, expects to improve it. Users also have the option of editing the generated captions to make them more accurate.
Thank you, Google, for caring about accessibility for hearing impaired people!