Captioning is increasingly common on YouTube, especially since it launched its CaptionTube service (which allows users to create captions for videos) and Google made its auto-caption feature available for YouTube videos. More recently, YouTube has made caption transcripts searchable, so clicking on a particular word in a transcript will take you to the corresponding section of the video.
While basic captions can be created using CaptionTube or auto-captions, there is sometimes a need for a more professional captioning service. The new ‘YouTube Ready’ designation and logo will identify caption suppliers who have passed a caption quality evaluation by DCMP, have a website and YouTube channel, and have posted rates for captioning YouTube content.
For more information see the YouTube blog.
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