YouTube’s automatic captioning system can now describe sound effects

 YouTube has long had an automatic captioning system that, thanks to Google’s machine learning advances in recent years, has gotten pretty good at automatically transcribing spoken words in a video. As the company announced today, its technology is now able to take this a step further by also captioning some of the ambient sounds like [LAUGHTER], [APPLAUSE] and [MUSIC]. For now, the… Read More

from https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/youtubes-automatic-captioning-system-can-now-describe-sound-effects/?ncid=rss