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, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:48AM (1 child)
Nervousness overcame the man. Would he be able to perform the feat, or would he fail miserably and become an object of ridicule by his peers? The man had to jump on a series of trampolines and land on his feet on a small target, and he had to flip 30 times as he made his way to said goal. What made it even more difficult was that the judges were extremely harsh and would only give a passing score if they felt his movements were truly majestic. One slip up and he would fail. Just then, a gun fired. It was now or never.
The man jumped onto the first trampoline and did several beautiful flips to the second. He continued this routine until he reached the final trampoline; he flipped off of it with great skill and landed on the minuscule target flawlessly. He had done it! He could move on to the next round! The crowd was cheering and the judges were impressed. The next contestant walked up to the starting line.
As the victorious man was leaving to go wait for the next phase of the contest, he saw employees taking away the target that he had landed on and destroyed; they replaced it with a new one. The employees chucked the destroyed target into a large dumpster, which was filled with the corpses of women who all had their faces smashed in. All was right with the world.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:53AM
Please sign up at Kr5ddit [kr5ddit.com]. It's the tiny speck remaining of what was once The Mighty Kuro5hin.
I at first had the impression that one had to pay to post there. That's not true you never need pay them anything. It's just that the site owner is a stock broker. To him, money is all there is.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:50AM (5 children)
I won't watch Facebook videos that aren't captioned.
I am often motivated to whack some webdesigners upside the head with a cluebat when I visit news articles that have videos that start playing as soon as I visit the article. These have the effect of disrupting my listening pleasure while I am forced to listen to some wannabe Geraldo Rivera until my click of the Back button takes effect.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:29PM
I won't watch Facebook videos at all.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:01PM (3 children)
You won't watch a video without captioning? Why? What do captions do for you? Strange, I don't have Geraldo or anyone else blathering in the background or anything - this phenomenon you speak of is outside of my experience. I remember a couple decades ago, when flash crap would pop up, and blare nonsense into the headphones, but that was fixed a long time ago. (Open source alternatives to Flash, and then finally, just dropping flash and it's alternatives.)
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:21AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara_(subtitling) [wikipedia.org]
AGPL web subtitling platform, JavaScript required tho
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:24AM
Buy this!
Or
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=5943 [songfacts.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:27PM
... while I kiss this guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:00PM (1 child)
When I turn Youtube captions on, if they are auto-generated I just turn them back off. That auto-caption thing understands English worse than I do, and English is NOT my native language.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @05:32PM
Want to have some real fun with the captions? Turn them on for videos of people singing, bonus points if they are singing in a foreign language.
(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]