I can tell you it’s definitely gotten better, but it will not be perfect.Īnd certainly I don’t think it will ever be perfect. Even to this day, I can tell you, it’s not perfect. Google were very excited about the launch of automatic caption on YouTube back in November 2009 – Source: Google Blogīut of course, it’s not.

“ Accessibility is now perfect on video”. “ We don’t have to put in the effort of writing captions out and creating them.” “This is going to provide all the solutions for everyone”. I remember when back in November 2009, Google had announced automatic captions on YouTube and people saying: This is why I want to focus on the technology part, because people really focus on that so much. And technology is not going to make things perfect for you. It’s like a part-solution it’s there for you and make it even better. Well, why do you think that is? It was never intended to be perfect. Auto-captions are not proper caption.Īnd I immediately go in assuming that it’s not captioned because that is a general feeling and the overwhelming majority of videos on YouTube are they’re not captioned at all and this an issue because people tend to leave it to technology, among the other reasons.īut really, I’m hearing a trend where people are saying, “well, closed caption is not accurate anyway”. Because the situation I’m in right now is that when I see a video on YouTube, especially from people that I don’t know the creators I’m not familiar with, my immediate first impression that they’re not captioned properly. Most of the time they tend to be just awful.Īnd just so you know, when I say in my experience, I’ve got a lot of experience in it. When you upload it, it’s there, you click it and the auto-captions are there for you.īut the thing is, in my experience, they tend to be awful. I’m mainly focusing about YouTube and this applies to other platforms, mainly YouTube, because obviously Google, who owns YouTube, they have the technology to provide auto-captions on the video directly. It’s not just a thing that you leave it and then it will do the job, and it’s perfect.

There are more reasons to add to these points, but in general, in my experience and what I can tell you, that each of these points are nonsense because you can get around them in very easy ways.īut really, I want to focus on that last point, which is about technology and how “we should just leave it to technology to do the job because it’s good enough and it will do”.īut the thing is, it’s not enough. I hear a variety of different excuses on why that is. In my experience, video creators generally (not all of them) don’t really bother with captions.

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