The Ladies of MWC Caption Contest vote-off
I was a little jet-lagged and failed to pick a winner for our caption contest. To that end, we encourage you, the readers, to pick the best caption and that caption writer will receive an Aliph...
View ArticleLive Caption, Google’s automatic captioning technology, is now available on...
Live Caption, Google’s automatic captioning system first introduced at its I/O developer conference this May, is now officially available, alongside the launch of the new Pixel 4. But unlike some of...
View ArticleAva expands its AI captioning to desktop and web apps, and raises $4.5M to scale
The worldwide shift to virtual workplaces has been a blessing and a curse to people with hearing impairments. Having office chatter occur in text rather than speech is more accessible, but virtual...
View ArticleFacebook and Instagram’s AI-generated image captions now offer far more details
Every picture posted to Facebook and Instagram gets evaluated by an image analysis AI in order to create a caption, and that AI just got a lot smarter. The improved system should be a treat for...
View ArticleTikTok adds auto captions to make videos accessible to hard of hearing and deaf
TikTok this morning announced the launch of a new feature designed to make its app accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf. The company is today debuting auto captions — a feature that,...
View ArticleInstagram adds a captions option for Stories and soon, Reels
Instagram is making its video Stories and Reels more accessible with the launch of a new “captions sticker” that will allow users to watch without having the sound on. The addition will not only make...
View ArticleYouTube announces new audio features aimed at making videos more accessible
YouTube announced several new audio features on Thursday, some of which have already rolled out while others will launch in the coming months. Starting today, creators have the ability to enable live...
View ArticleAva sets the example for universal live captioning and raises $10M to keep...
When we last checked in with AI-powered captioning service Ava, they had just raised a seed round and it was six months into a pandemic that would reshape how we all work together. Eighteen months...
View ArticleNetflix Gets Serious About Closed Captioning
Netflix now provides content with captions or subtitles for more than 80 percent of the hours streamed in the U.S. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that 80+ percent of Netflix’s streaming content has...
View ArticleYouTube Expands Translation Tools For Video Captions To 300+ Languages
YouTube just announced that it is now making it easier for video creators to translate their video captions to more than 300 languages by integrating the YouTube Video Manager with the Google...
View ArticleYouTube Partners With Gengo And Translated.net To Make Ordering Paid Caption...
YouTube just announced that it has partnered with Gengo and Translated.net, two popular translation services, to give its users a more streamlined process to get their video captions translated by...
View ArticleYouTube says it now has automatically captioned 1 billion videos
When Google rolled out its automatic captioning service for YouTube back in 2009, the results were far from great. Since then, Google’s speech recognition technology has made massive strides, though,...
View ArticleNetflix now lets TV viewers customize text for subtitles and closed captions
Starting today, Netflix is giving TV users the option to customize the size and style of subtitles and closed captions. This update gives subscribers the ability to choose from three sizes — small,...
View ArticleVideo editing startup Captions launches a dubbing app, Lipdub, with support...
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports several...
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