Highlights from our recent music search feature launch event. http://www.google.com/music

In Washington, DC, Google announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your video, you can upload it to YouTube and we’ll time the captions for you.

Over 60 accessibility leaders from the National Association of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, AAPD and other organizations joined us to be the first to learn about these new features.

Read more about the announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html

Watch this video to learn how to talk face-to-face with your friends using video chat inside orkut. All you need is a webcam and a small plugin – free at http://google.com/chat/video

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. http://www.chromium.org

Marissa Mayer and Food Network’s Alton Brown celebrate Thanksgiving with new themes and gadgets for iGoogle. http://google.com/gourmetthemes

An American finds love in Paris. Watch more Search Stories by Google at http://youtube.com/searchstories

Search On.

Watch this short demo to learn about machine-generated captions in YouTube and automatic timing for manually created caption tracks.
(As you can see ASR is still a work in progress – but we have manually fixed captions,too)

Google Translate is a tool that allows you to translate text, documents and webpages between over 50 languages. Here Josh Estelle, software engineer on the team, gives a quick demo of the new features for text translation. Try it now at http://translate.google.com.

Forty years after the “War on Poverty” and twenty-five years after “A Nation at Risk,” a new forum has been designed to advance a new paradigm for learning by harnessing the largely untapped potential of digital media. Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age brought together 200 of the nations top thought leaders in science and technology, informal and formal education, entertainment media, research, philanthropy, and policy to create and act upon a breakthrough strategy for scaling-up effective models of teaching and learning for children.

Check out our opening night including a welcome speech from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, opening remarks by Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of the US Dept of Ed, and a fiesty panel discussion featuring Linda Darling Hammond, Joel Klein, Mitch Kapor, Jonathan Miller and Ram Sriram.

And don’t miss the final event, our keynote speech by Geoff Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone

For more about the event, please go to: http://www.google.com/events/digitalage

0:36 Eric Schmidt’s welcome
5:59 Gary Knell’s welcome
9:30 Joan Ganz Cooney’s welcome
11:22 Gary Knell (continued)
14:11 Jim Steyer’s welcome
21:21 James Bennett introduction
27:02 Martha Kanter opening remarks
44:58 Opening panel (Linda Darling-Hammond, Joel I. Klein, Mitchell Kapor,Jonathan F. Miller, Kavitark Shriram