As more people are making use of captions, Google has added automatic captions in YouTube. Captions not only help the deaf and hearing imparied, but with machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages.

Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.

According to Google Blog: Google has combined Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they’re off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time.

Apart from that automatic caption timing is launching or in other words auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we’ll use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don’t have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks.

Here is Video Demonstration:

Read More: Google Blog

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