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Monday, November 23, 2009
Online Learning Accessibility: Google adds automatic captions to YouTube - By by Chris Lefkow, AFP
Google, in a significant development for deaf Internet users, announced it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. Google said on Thursday machine-generated captions would initially be available only in English and on videos from 13 YouTube "partner channels" but it hopes to extend the feature eventually to all videos uploaded to the site. "Google believes that the world's information should be accessible to everyone," said Vint Cerf, a Google vice president who has been described as the "Father of the Internet."
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