YouTube added a feature that generates video captions. YouTube team combined Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video.
Another new feature is auto-timing, which lets you upload the transcription of a video and it automatically generates the time codes. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and YouTube will use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video.
Automatic captions make YouTube videos more accessible: you can watch videos with the sound off and you can translate the captions into another language using Google Translate.
