There are many news that Google presented during the Google I / O 2022, the annual event that was held on May 11th. In addition to the new Android 13 operating system, Pixel 6a, the advances on Pixel 7, Pixel Watch and the tablet, the Mountain View company also talked about already existing apps and services, describing the upcoming improvements and optimizations.
The YouTube video streaming service, for example, is striving for increase the number of videos with auto-generated subtitles and to make available to users translations up to 16 languages. The new features are coming to YouTube Mobile for both Android and iOS.
With the purpose of increase the number of videos with subtitles up to 10 times (from 8 to 80 million) and to improve the level of communication and information sharing, Google has therefore decided to implement this new feature. This was possible thanks to the acquisition in 2014 of DeepMind, a British artificial intelligence company that made available a technology capable of analyzing text, audio and video to generate subtitles for videos with maximum precision and speed.
Not only multiple videos with auto-generated subtitles but also the possibility for users to watch videos in other languages thanks to the translation of subtitles in 16 languages. In this way, people can find useful information even on videos made in another language, and video creators can expand their audience on a global scale, increasing the communication power of Google’s video platform even more.
Below are the languages available for automatic subtitle translation, to which Ukrainian will be added over the next month.
- Arabic
- Traditional Chinese)
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Thai
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