YouTube includes automatic captions

YouTube has incorporated a beta automatic subtitling feature advantageous for users with hearing disabilities and those not easily understand foreign languages. Until now, people have posted videos on YouTube manually subtitled by the posting user. This has changed with the incorporation of  this automatic subtitling function based on Google ‘s text-to-voice technology. To activate the feature (beta version for the time being), users need only press a virtual button called “caption” and then select the “transcribe audio”, so that YouTube automatically generates text based on the video’s audio. The system also features a choice of translation / interpretation in real time. In their  blog, YouTube accepts that the system has certain imperfections, and that voice to text conversion can produce results that sometimes are difficult  to understand.

What a great feature! who has checked it out?

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Microsoft’s browser signs a new partnership to deliver direct answers and links, providing an additional service that allows them to extend their offer and compete with Google.

The supremacy of Google in the field of online search seems not to be questioned, but its competitors are slowly bringing new applications in pursue of least grabbing some market share.

This is what Microsoft has just made, by signing an alliance with WolframAlfa to offer direct answers in addition to links on their search results .

Bing will be using WolframAlpha’s API, to have access to thousands of different algorithms and calculations processes that will improve significantly the search results.

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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Google has presented a new privacy control tool that will allow users to know what information is being collected about  them.

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This new tool can be accessed from the “dashboard” command and shows the information stored in Google’s computers which include search requests, email summaries and youtube use habits.

This tool points  to bring satisfaction to those concerned with privacy issues; however, it only gives information related to Google services and does not show activity associated to non-Google services.

Go to http://www.google.com/dashboard/ for more information, there’s also a helpful video that explains how to use this feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaJPxhPq_g

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Michael Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd