New! Caption files for Google Developer Videos
by Naomi
Bilodeau, Google Code TeamLast year, YouTube launched a
Captions and Subtitles
feature. In addition to launching
a new playlist
for captioned Developer Videos, we're also kicking off
an Open Source project to
host caption files that anyone can reuse under the terms of the
Creative Commons 3.0
BY license.
We're hoping that developers will come up with
interesting uses for caption data, once it's in the public domain. You can use transcripts as
a corpus for training speech-to-text algorithms or testing applications that read and write
caption files. Or, combine timepoint data with YouTube's URL support to jump to a specific
point in a video.
Caption tracks make YouTube videos accessible to a
wider audience. For example, try a search on [
RESTful protocol YouTube] and you'll find search results from the
captions on Joe Gregorio's recent talk.
While we're delighted that
Kevin Marks' captioned English
accent can be more easily understood by Americans, we've also translated the caption
files and provided tracks in multiple languages for
a
few of our captioned videos. For all other videos, YouTube
can
perform Auto-Translate on caption text using
Google Translate technology.
To learn more about YouTube caption file formats, take a look at the
YouTube Help Center. If you're interested in contributing caption files
for videos on Google channels, or making translations available, please consider
joining the
project.
We hope you'll find these additions useful. Happy
reading!
