Friday, March 12, 2010

Deaf Patients Can Now Enjoy YouTube

SAN FRANCISCO. To be content accessible to deaf users on the Internet, Youtube will develop a feature that auto-captions such subtitle (translation).

"Today, we launched firtur auto-captions for all Youtube users," said Hiroto Tokusei, YouTube Product Manager in the official blog of the website, yesterday.

So far, auto-captions are only in English-language videos, Tokusei said. However, YouTube plans to expand it to feature 50 different languages in the coming months.

Youtube started to develop auto-captions feature in 2008. In November last year, actually it has released the website on auto-captions, but only for certain circles.

YouTube trusted development of auto-captions feature will help users, especially those who have hearing problems with gnats can be more clear in watching the video.

According to research conducted Youtube, as many as 700 million people in the world will have a problem with their hearing in 2015.

Source : www.mediaindonesia.com

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