Google has already introduced captioning in Youtube. Using captions users can go directly to the exact part they are looking for and also improve the searches. This Youtube technology aids not just the deaf and hearing impaired the most, but with machine translation it enable the people all around the globe to access the video content in one among 51 language.

But in every single minute there occurs a lot of video uploads in Youtube and we cannot expect that each video owner will spend their time and effort to add captions to their videos. Even after having all of the captioning support that is already obtainable in Youtube, a huge amount of user generated video contents are still not accessible to common users. Inorder to overcome this to a limit, Google’s automatic speech recognition technology ( ASR ) is being combined with Youtube caption system to offer something called automatic captions or auto caps.

Automatic caption makes use of the very same voice recognition algorithm that is used in Google Voice to produce video captions automatically. The captions produced may not be perfect all the time, but even when it is off, it can still be useful. Besides automatic captions, a system called automatic caption timing or auto timing is also being planned to launch. Auto timing is expected to make manual caption creation significantly easier.

With this system you don’t have to be an expert to create captions in Youtube, you can start just by creating a simple text file which has all the words in your video and it will make use of Google’s automatic speech recognition technology to make out when the words are speak out and will generate captions that are apt for your video. This is expected to reduce the hardships for video owners who wish to add captions but lack time or resources, to create caption.