WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Transcription/captioning

for

From: John E Brandt
Date: Apr 13, 2011 11:48AM

Yes, YouTube is owned by Google and "Google Voice" is the "engine" that runs
the automatic transcription process in YouTube. They also have an automatic
translation service that will convert the spoken words to a different
language.

~j

John E. Brandt
www.jebswebs.com
<EMAIL REMOVED>
207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Keith Parks
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:36 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Transcription/captioning


On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Poore-Pariseau, Cindy wrote:

> Can you share the costs (approx) for the captioning service? Also, have
you found Google's service any more accurate than YouTube's? Has anyone
else used Google's services?

John Brandt mentions the cost for AST in his post this morning.

As for the Google/YouTube captioning, I meant that as referring to YouTube's
service. YouTube is owned by Google, isn't it?

******************************
Keith Parks
Graphic Designer/Web Designer
Student Affairs Communications Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7444
(619) 594-1046
mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED>
http://www.sa.sdsu.edu/communications

http://kparks.deviantart.com/gallery
----------------------------------------------------------

Yes We Can!*

*should not be interpreted to mean that we necessarily will