Life With A Hearing Loss » Closed Captioning/Subtitles http://www.lifewithahearingloss.com Stories, Challenges, Tips, and Humor of Life With a Hearing Loss Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Captioning Now Available on All YouTube.com Videos http://www.lifewithahearingloss.com/captioning-now-available-on-all-youtube-com-videos/ http://www.lifewithahearingloss.com/captioning-now-available-on-all-youtube-com-videos/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:42:43 +0000 Viki http://www.lifewithahearingloss.com/?p=56 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!

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