YouTube Expands Speech Recognition and Translation AI Features - G3ict: The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs

Google has augmented and widened access to some of YouTube's audio AI-based features. The update includes extending auto-captioning to any YouTube channel and automatic caption translation to mobile devices and lays out plans for even more inclusion of the platform's speech recognition and translation technology. The most notable immediate change is that YouTube has ended the 1,000 subscriber minimum to enable live auto captions. The limit on auto captioning may have been a way to encourage the promotion of YouTube channels or out of concern for limited computing resources, but that no longer matters. The auto captions will also be available in more languages soon, upping the accessibility of non-English content on YouTube.