Cross Posted from the YouTube Japan Blog.
Last March we offered everyone the ability to automatically create captions on your videos, and the response has been exciting to see: auto-captions have been generated on nearly 40 million videos, and the number of manually-created caption tracks has more than tripled. We�re eager to see more videos captioned in more languages, so we just rolled out this feature to a new language � Japanese.
Now on any video with a clear Japanese speech track, a red �CC� button will appear at the bottom of the player, where you can click it to generate automatic captions from the speech. We�re also working closely with the the Japan Federation for the Deaf to improve this technology and make it more useful.
Here�s an example of how it works from our partner ANN News Channel:
And if you really want to get multilingual with YouTube videos, when these auto-captions are combined with our auto-translate feature, you�ll be able to generate subtitles into more than 50 languages.
Keeping up with our Japanese partners just got that much easier.
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