Captioning YouTube

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Captioning YouTube

Dec 15 2008

Thanks to Dave Pearson and Dana Mulvany, members of HLAA, we received the following information about YouTube:

"In a move to make videos easier to understand without volume or for hard of hearing people, YouTube has given users the option of embedding closed captions that show up as semitransparent overlays. Caption files that have text dialogue synced up to the proper timestamps can be uploaded during the time of upload or afterwards, and YouTube has provided multiple language support to let viewers swap between different languages of a single video without having to leave playback."

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