Monday 26 February 2018

YouTube live streams will soon include automatic captions

YouTube is announcing a few new features today meant to improve the experience for viewers watching live streams. First, the company has announced that it’s bringing automatic English captions to live streams whenever professionally provided captions aren’t available. The continued goal is to make streams accessible for more people.

These captions utilize the company’s live automatic speech recognition (LASR) technology, which is “approaching” industry standards for error rates and latency. It’s powered by machine learning, and thus the auto captions are far from perfect. But it’s certainly better than nothing if you want to make things convenient for viewers and maximize your live stream audience. Automatic live stream captions will be...

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