Thursday, March 4, 2010

YouTube releases auto-captioning

One of the most difficult problems facing faculty moving into video creation for their classes is captioning those videos for the hearing impaired. Now YouTube offers auto-closed captioning. The closed captioning is done automatically when the video is loaded. Though it is not perfect, it's close, and whatever it gets wrong can be fixed by working with a text file. Just another reason to use YouTube for videos in your classes.

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