Several months ago, Google implemented captioning into their video service, YouTube. All you needed was a transcript, formatted in timed text and that was it. The most difficult thing about this process was making the special timed text file. So Google did away with that…

All you need now, is a transcript and Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) software will create the timed text for you. Not only will this help with accessibility, but SEO as well.

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