We work hard to make sure that the videos on the GoogleDevelopers channel
on Youtube are captioned, but when I/O added over a hundred
hours of video content, we got a little behind. I'm happy to announce that we're
finally caught up! Every English and Spanish video from I/O now has captions that you can turn
on in YouTube.
Didn't know we had captions? Just click to select
captions from the menu in the lower right corner of the video player.
Some caption and subtitle-related news:
A group of
volunteers from Russia used the translated.by
software to crowdsource translation for Google Wave video captions. Thank
you, habratranslation! Check out one of the Wave videos with Russian
subtitles. (You have to choose Russian from the caption menu in YouTube to see
them.)
If you'd like to help translate captions for any of our
videos, please email google-video-captions@googlegroups.com with a request. We'd be
happy to share any caption files that you might be interested in under a creative commons attribution license. If you send us the
translation, we'll credit you in the video caption track and blog about how awesome you
are.
In addition to machine translation for captions, YouTube
now provides experimental automatic caption transcription using the same
speech recognition algorithms found in Google Voice. The GoogleDevelopers channel is part of
the initial pilot, so this feature is available on many of our videos. To learn more, check
out the blog post on the Official Google
Blog.
