YouTube has announced a number of new audio features for the platform, some of which have already been launched while others will be rolled out in the coming quarters. Now creators will have the ability to enable live auto-captions for live streams in English. This feature was previously available only for creators who had more than 1000 subscribers and now makes live streams more accessible to the general public.
Moreover, YouTube is planning to expand its live-captions feature to all 13 supported caption languages. The supported languages are English, French, Dutch, Italian, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Turkish.
YouTube is also testing the ability to include multiple audio tracks on videos to offer multi-language audio for international audiences. This will be accompanied by descriptive audio for viewers with vision impairments. Currently, the feature is available only to a small group of creators. The company plans to expand the scope of this feature in the coming months.
Later this year, YouTube is also rolling out auto-translation for captions in supported languages on Android and iOS. The feature, which is currently available on the desktop version, will offer users the option to search through transcripts on Android and iOS. The company plans to test the ability of users to search for particular keywords within transcripts on mobile devices.
YouTube first announced auto-captions in 2009 and has since worked to enhance their functionality and make them more widely accessible. They launched auto-captions for live streams in 2018 and now the company is working on new channel permissions in YouTube Studio that will enable creators to delegate subtitle and caption creation on their videos to someone else. This feature was earlier announced under the name ‘subtitle editor’, but according to the company, the rollout of this feature is taking longer than expected. YouTube also claimed that it is actively working on the feature and plans to keep the creators updated in the coming quarters.
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