Are you frustrated with your YouTube videos with garbled captions? you’re not alone. To deal with this, YouTube has recently started testing with crowd-sourced features like Google Maps.
Let’s say you’re watching an extremely interesting travel vlog, but whenever the captions appear, they say “Eiffel Tower” instead of “awesome flower.” Let’s keep the shine out there. YouTube is user-testing a system in which you, the viewer, can directly suggest improvements on the desktop platform. Here you will find an icon with a gear sign. Tapping this button will open the “Suggest Caption Improvements” option. indicates that this is now the transcript where you can mark errors, propose amendments, and put them up for approval or rejection.
If you look at other viewers’ offers and choose again, this is the same as liking and feeling attractive. On the other hand, the improvements will not be real-time and synchronized like Google Maps. Instead, the text is sent to the video creator’s “subtitle panel”, where it is checked and approved for viewing.
This issue addresses an important problem of accessibility that will be addressed in the present experiment. Whenever translation is required, this is extremely important for people who are deaf and also for those who may prefer to watch videos with subtitles in the correct language. Harnessing the shared power of viewers, YouTube wants to see significant advances in subtitle quality across the platform.
As language has become a barrier, possibilities arise from machine-based text and the promise is great, although at the moment it is limited to English language channels with automatic captioning. If you’re a desktop user and want to contribute, you can visit youtube.com/new to see if you can participate in this challenging test and expand YouTube inclusivity for all platform users.
