Since YouTube’s automated caption service began:
- People have watched videos with automatic captions more than 23 million times, and have automatically translated captions more than 7.6 million times.
- The number of manually-created caption tracks has more than tripled thanks largely to automatic caption timing technology.
- The error rate in the service’s speech recognition algorithms has recently been reduced by 20%.
The YouTube Global blog celebrates these advancements and looks to the future of accessible technology. Media Access Australia has a number of resources for people interested in creating captions and creating accessible content on the web in general.
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