Flying Thumbs Web Design » accessibility http://www.flyingthumbs.com Search Engine Friendly xhtml/css Web Design Sun, 02 May 2010 04:52:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta1 YouTube’s automated captioning falls on deaf ears http://www.flyingthumbs.com/2009/11/youtubes-automated-captioning-falls-on-deaf-ears/ http://www.flyingthumbs.com/2009/11/youtubes-automated-captioning-falls-on-deaf-ears/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:50:53 +0000 jeff http://www.flyingthumbs.com/?p=47 Continue reading →]]> 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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