YouTube Offers Translation Captioning

Today, YouTube will start automatically captioning videos on its site.

Combined with the continuous playlist, This feature is opening up a huge share of its content to playback in a noisy environment such hotel lobby, restaurant, sport bar, etc…

The captioning alone could present  tremendous benefits to hearing-impaired people.

Furthermore, millions of non-English speaking viewers can get a glimpse of the messages with automatic translation to their languages. 

Knowing there are many educational materials including university courses can be found on YouTube, you can imagine the impact globally of this feature.  Click on the red CC button to see the magic!

Thanks YouTube! Thanks Google!

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