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: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:40PM
Looks like Google is following Periscope's lead. "Auto captioning" is just code for having the machines listen to everything so they can censor video streams in real time and once they have a rough transcript anyway, attaching that to the video as a "why not?" move.
http://voxday.blogspot.hk/2018/02/periscope-blocking-crisis-actor.html [blogspot.hk]