YouTube announced new audio features on its platform. Now creators have the ability to enable auto-captions for any livestreams in English to make streams more accessible. Previously this feature was accessible to creators with 1K Plus subscribers.
The video platforms plans to expand live auto captions to all 13 supported captioning languages in the coming few months.
Some of the supported includes Dutch, English, French, Italian, German, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
YouTube is currently testing the ability to add multiple audio tracks on videos to help provide multi-language audio for international audiences along with descriptive audio for people with vision impairments.
The feature is currently available to a small group of creators. YouTube plans to roll out the feature more widely in the coming quarters.
YouTube is also rolling out auto-translation for captions in supported languages on Android and iOS later this year. The feature is currently only available on the desktop version of the platform.
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