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From: Varela, Marilyn
Date: Thu, Nov 19 2009 12:40PM
Subject: Google to Caption YouTube Videos
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Hi: I was wondering if anyone saw this article and am curious what you
think of it?



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/technology/internet/20google.html?refinternet





Marilyn



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From: Randi
Date: Thu, Nov 19 2009 12:45PM
Subject: Re: Google to Caption YouTube Videos
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This sounds most wonderful! Maybe descriptive audio will be next.
Thanks for sharing!

~Randi

Its an adventure, said Fred.

From: Bradley Dilger
Date: Thu, Nov 19 2009 3:55PM
Subject: Re: Google to Caption YouTube Videos
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I was discussing YouTube captioning the other day, and realized I
haven't heard much about its quality and efficacy. Does anyone know of
any studies or reviews which evaluate caption quality on YouTube?

thanks,
Bradley

Randi wrote:
> This sounds most wonderful! Maybe descriptive audio will be next.
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> ~Randi
>
> Its an adventure, said Fred.
>
>