- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:37 +1100
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi all, Thought you should know: Google/YouTube continues to paint the way - of follow John Foliot here. :) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html They provide automated captioning using speech recognition, but only for specific publishers right now. What's more interesting is that they allow for the provisioning of transcripts and automatically create the time-alignment. This is very similar to a service that John Foliot explained in the Video Accessibility Workshop before TPAC. I'm very excited about this - now they just need to start doing textual audio descriptions and hook them up to screenreaders and we have made a huge step forward in the online video world. Now we just need to do the same for HTML5. :-) Cheers, Silvia.
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