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YouTube videos will soon get captions
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | November 20, 2009

Soon you’ll be able to understand thousands of Internet videos even if the sound is turned down. With an assist from Boston public TV station WGBH, Google Inc. has developed technology that will automatically add on-screen captions to video streams on its popular YouTube website.

Ken Harrenstien, Google’s lead software engineer on the project, said the new technology will make many YouTube videos accessible to hearing-impaired people for the first time. “Many people have wanted this to happen for many years,’’ said Harrenstien, who is deaf.[continued … ]

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