November 28, 2012—YouTube announced that automatic captioning will be available for YouTube videos in six languages: German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Dutch. This is in addition to the closed captioning already provided for English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish videos. YouTube acknowledges that there will be some errors with automatic captioning but that there are tools the content creators can use to improve the quality of their captions. YouTube noted that there are approximately “200 million videos with automatic and human-created captions on YouTube, and [we] continue to add more each day to make YouTube accessible for all.”
YouTube Captioning in Six More Languages
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