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Google software engineer Ken Harrenstein, who has been blogging about the eventual launch of the captions, showed off the new feature at a press conference. Harrenstein is deaf, and says the company has been working on the project since 2005.
Automatic captioning has been available to a small number of groups since last year, but the feature has now gone wide.
Researcher Mike Cohen says "the captioning technology blends Google's speech-recognition and translation algorithms."
The technology continues to improve daily, getting better at factoring in accents, and canceling out background noise.
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 5 Mar 2010 13:01