YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.
The software engineer behind the technology, Ken Harrenstien, is deaf. The new system solution combines automatic speech recognition with the current manual caption system.
Sadly the the translation is not always perfect , but Mr Harrenstien says that the technology "will continue to improve with time".
A better alternative is for users to upload a transcript of their video and auto-timing algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken.
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