Monday, November 23rd, 2009
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.
Automatic captions will be generated using Google's automated speech recognition (ASR) technology and the same voice recognition algorithms ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Fans of Billy Mays are rallying on Twitter and YouTube to pay tribute to the TV pitchman for OxiClean, Kaboom, and OrangeGlo.
Mays, 50, died unexpectedly this weekend.
Some are wearing blue and encouraging others to do. (#wearblue4billy)
Other tributes are popping up on YouTube, including this rap song and video and ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
There's a bunch of news coming from YouTube in the past couple of days. First up, they're giving channels a makeover. Users can switch their channels over on their own now, but by July 15th all channels will be switched to the new look.
The University of Phoenix has already ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
YouTube recently released a bunch of updates across the popular online video sharing site. Here they are:
Wonder Wheel - You may remember that Google added Wonder Wheel to search back in March. Now, for certain searches on YouTube, check the right hand side for the Wonder Wheel link. Here's what ...
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