Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider the most important and exciting milestone yet: machine-generated automatic captions.Since the original launch of captions in our products, we’ve been happy to see growth in the number of captioned videos on our services, which now number in the hundreds of thousands. This suggests that more and more people are becoming aware of how useful captions can be. As we’ve explained in the past, captions not only help the deaf and hearing impaired, 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.
Terry Booth on 01 Feb 10This workshop will provide an introduction to the PLACE NAMES project, an interdisciplinary unit that integrateds Indian Education into Science, Social Studies and Communication Arts using technology. The focus of the Place Names Project is to build cross-cultural relationships between traditional Bitterroot Salish and Pend d'Oreille world views and science using Google Earth and tribal cultures.
