Online Video Captions

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have announced their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Inter­net Cap­tion­ing Forum (ICF) estab­lished to pro­mote the use of cap­tion­ing for online video. They will be work­ing with the National Cen­ter for Acces­si­ble Media (NCAM) at WGBH Boston. You can read quotes from Vint Cerf and other rep­re­sen­ta­tives from each of the big four at the National Cen­ter for Tech­nol­ogy Inno­va­tion regard­ing the effort.

I am nei­ther deaf or hard or hear­ing, but the cap­tions are almost always on when the tele­vi­sion is on in our home. I enjoy the view­ing expe­ri­ence and miss fewer words mum­bled here and there when I can look down and glance at the words when needed.

Google video cur­rently pro­vides detailed instruc­tions on adding cap­tion­ing to videos. Addi­tion­ally, in the Google Video Help Cen­ter, this ques­tions is asked, “Do you gen­er­ate captions/subtitles for my video?” and the answer they pro­vide is a promis­ing “Not at this time.” They also have a sec­tion where you can view exam­ples of cap­tioned videos.

NCAM Press Release

(hat tip: The Assis­tive Tech­nol­ogy Blog)

  1. Usability Research & Innovations » A universally friendly Internet future? says:
    November 29, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    […] with the National Cen­ter for Acces­si­ble Media to add cap­tions to online media. ‘Bout time. From Curb Cut. […]

  2. Javier says:
    June 12, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Chris,

    I am happy to say that we just release an inno­vated web­site that allows users to easy add video cap­tions to their favorite videos in sec­onds. I tried the Google video cap­tion­ing ser­vice and many oth­ers out there but its not a sim­ple progress. Thats why we ded­i­cated our time devel­op­ing TubeCaption.com try the edi­tor at http://tubecaption.com/captions/demo. One of the best fea­tures is that TubeCaption.com shares the rev­enue with the users that adds cap­tions to their videos sim­ply by link­ing their Google AdSense account with TubeCaption.com 50% of the their cap­tions are dis­played to the pub­lic their AdSense account is used so that they make the profit.

    Let me know what you think. We are cur­rently under beta and we are work­ing on brin­ing many other fea­tures very soon.
    Thanks!

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