YouTube headquarters held a press conference today to announce the new auto-captioning technology on TouTube a Google owned video site.
The Google Speech Technology team is trying to face the challenged of getting the auto captioning on YouTube to work correctly. They have had to overcome obstacles like background noises, large vocabularies, slang and deciphering between speech and songs.
It is working to add auto captioning to your own videos but not to other peoples. They are saying it may take a day or longer to caption the video depending on the length of the video that you are working with.
Several universities are getting involved and have been some of the earliest partners in this venture. Some of these are UCLA, Duke, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Berkley, Columbia and others. PBS and National Geographic are also partners.
Here is a video announcing when this first began in November of 2009
This auto captioning will allow you to download the captions into a text document with timestamps. This will help to allow professors and others to use a text based search in the text captions to find content in videos that would normally take them hours of viewing. You will be able to specify in your search that you want videos with closed captioning so that you do not have to dig through other videos in the mix.
The California School for the Deaf is now able to help their students to understand videos online and the students have also expressed that it will not only help the deaf but it will also help others to learn English.
I definitely think this is going to be big, not only for the deaf or hearing impared but also for others to understand lyrics of songs and for web masters to be able to use the text files to search content. That is really going to help us in the social media or internet marketing fields to be able to search quickly through content other than having to sit there and watch every single video to find if it may have the information we need. Thumbs up to YouTube and Google with this venture.
To see more about this YouTube launch of Auto Captioning, click here.
This is the closest thing that I can find about the differences between Facebook pages and Facebook groups. People have been asking me this a lot lately and I just found this post today. I hope this will help to explain things a little better for those of you just getting started in social media and Facebook in general.
Facebook Pages
Like a friend’s profile, Facebook Pages enable public figures, businesses, organizations and other entities to create an authentic and public presence on Facebook. Unlike your profile, Facebook Pages are visible to everyone on the internet by default. You, and every person on Facebook, can connect with these Pages by becoming a fan and then receive their updates in your News Feed and interact with them.
Authenticity is at the core of Facebook. Just as profiles should represent real people and real names, so too should Pages for entities. Only the official representatives of a public figure, business or organization should create a Facebook Page.
For example, I am an avid watcher of the American TV show “Lost” on ABC. By connecting with the official Facebook Page for “Lost”, I can keep up on the latest episodes and other information directly from the people behind it.
The official “Lost” Facebook Page.
We have a team at Facebook that is focused on verifying the authenticity of Pages on the site. If an official representative or user identifies a fake, spammy or abusive Page, we will investigate and determine whether to remove these Pages at their request. Remember that you can always remove yourself as a fan of any Page by clicking the “Remove Me from Fans” link in the bottom left corner of the Page.
Facebook Groups
While Pages were designed to be the official profiles for entities, such as celebrities, brands or businesses, Facebook Groups are the place for small group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion. Groups allow people to come together around a common cause, issue or activity to organize, express objectives, discuss issues, post photos and share related content.
When you create a group, you can decide whether to make it publicly available for anyone to join, require administrator approval for members to join or keep it private and by invitation only. Like with Pages, new posts by a group are included in the News Feeds of its members and members can interact and share with one another from the group.
Groups range widely, from members of a church group or athletic team organizing activities to serious topics on politics and world events or even more lighthearted themes.
Say that you and your friends have a favorite celebrity or cause you want to rally around, but you are not the official representative of either. You can either become a fan of the official Facebook page for the celebrity or cause and show your support there or create your own group on Facebook around the common interest.
For example, just as I’m a fan of the official Page for the show “Lost,” I am also a member of groups created by other fans like myself. The “Lost” groups offer a way to interact with a community of people and discuss the latest theories around what is happening on the show—from what the “smoke monster is” to how it will all end. To read from this article, click here.
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