YouTube announced a new automatic captioning (Auto-Caps) function today for English language videos on the service.
The site will now be able to automatically generate subtitles using speech recognition technology. It will also allow video owners and publishers to upload transcript texts for their videos. The uploaded text will not require any timing data, as the Auto-Caps function will figure out when the words are spoken in the video and display the captions at the correct time.
Clearly, this is a major benefit to hearing impaired. Another key benefit is the ability to translate the english language text into multiple foreign languages using Google Translate’s functionality. So, the captionning of English language videos can be displayed in multiple foreign languages as well.
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You could probably kludge something together to give you lip reading abilities on security cameras through this service too.
Now even little big brothers can know what people are saying.
(sorry to always see the downside…)