In addition to expanded accessibility for those with hearing disabilities, the combination of captions with machine translation expands YouTube accessibility across the globe. Hence, increased accesibility by adding captions to YouTube videos makes the corpus available to a much larger audience. A 2005 US census showed that 7.8 million people (or about 3 percent of the US population) have difficulty hearing a normal conversation, with 1 million unable to hear at all. This is particularly true for people with hearing disabilities. With YouTube expanding its index at a breakneck speed of about 20 hours of new material uploaded each minute, access to this vast body of video material becomes increasingly challenging. These features significantly reduce the effort it takes to create captions for videos on YouTube. On November 19, we launched our new automatic captioning and automatic alignment feature for YouTube. However, creators with a verified badge will have to reapply for it after changing their details on YouTube.Posted by Christopher Alberti and Michiel Bacchiani, Google Research This was apparently a highly requested feature from content creators and has started rolling out through a server-side update from April 22. Recently, YouTube started allowing content creators on its platform to change their names and profile pictures through YouTube Studio without having to change the same details on their Google accounts. The report said the feature is available for both YouTube Web and mobile app users. As mentioned, the new feature takes the help of Google Translate to automatically translating the text, which can help users browse through videos more easily. According to the report, some user were able to see video titles, descriptions, and captions from English to Portuguese and English to Turkish. However, translations to only Portuguese and Turkish have been spotted so far.Īndroid Police was the first to report on the new translation feature enabled for some users by YouTube. It can be expected to be available for more users soon.
A few users have reportedly spotted the feature, which seems to have been enabled through a server-side change. The new feature on the popular video-sharing platform is powered by Google's own Translate app. YouTube could soon make it easier for users to browse through videos by automatically translating video titles, descriptions, and captions in their native language, according to a report.
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