YouTube Live gains automatic captions, chat replay and more
YouTube today announced several new features designed to improve the live streaming experience for both creators and viewers. The most notable additions include the ability to play back a live chat after the live stream ends, and the launch of live automatic captions on videos.
YouTube began offering automatic captioning back in 2009, and has since added captions to a billion videos, the company says. Live captioning a video in real-time is a bit more complicated, but advancements in speech recognition technology are making features like this possible. (Similarly, a new startup launched an app called Otter today, that live transcribes meeting and conversations – also thanks to advancements in voice technologies.)
Also at VentureBeat.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:44PM (2 children)
Didn't you read the comment? It enables him to receive the text of the video without disturbing the music that's still running in the background.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:52PM (1 child)
I guess I'd have to see it, to understand it. I've never found the need for a text of the video, and simply don't understand why.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @05:30PM
Oh wow, literally just explained to you.