If you love incorrect captions, you may die laughing as Google is going to use the technology from Google Voice to place captions on your videos. It was made for deaf and hearing-impaired users, but we all know who will enjoy it more.
While the wizards over at Google try to figure out how to make it suck less, Google now let you upload a text file which Google Voice will match with what you say.
Because the speech-recognition technology is still a work in progress, Google is launching the automatic captioning service on the YouTube channels of just a handful of partners, including PBS, National Geographic and a few big universities. But the company promises that the technology will improve over time – and it hopes for a much broader rollout.
In the meantime, Google is adding a new “auto-timing” feature to its existing manual captioning service to make it easier to use. Video creators will now simply have to create a text file with all the words spoken in a video and Google’s speech recognition technology will take it from there – matching the text to the words as they are spoken. Google hopes this will encourage more users to add captions to their videos.