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!
me my sister love to watch online videos specially youtube videos`.,
is this going to happen this year? I just realized the above blog was written last year but I haven’t seen the CC button yet on You tube,
Colleen, on many YouTube videos, there is a button in the lower right-hand corner that has an UP arrow on it. If you click that button, you will see an option to turn on captions. It doesn’t seem to work for all videos, though. I’ve noticed that other videos simply have a caption button to click, and that doesn’t always work either. Hopefully, improvements will be made soon.