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Google Announces Automatic Captions on YouTube

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

Text Translation on Google Translate

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.