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Realplayer. Unswvideo. YouTube Audio Transcription. YouTube added a feature that generates video captions. "We've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. " The feature only works for English and it's been enabled for a small number of channels that usually feature talks and interviews: UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke,UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic. Another new feature is auto-timing, which lets you upload the transcription of a video and it automatically generates the time codes. "All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video.

" How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom - elearnr. Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) YouTube Tests Download and Creative Commons License Options. The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) Victoria State Election 2006. The Poll Vault: Candidates on YouTube. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Candidates on YouTube By Stefan Armbruster I first noticed the use of YouTube during the Queensland election campaign when musician Russell Davidson put up a psychedelic anti-Beattie clip featuring some wobbly bum cheeks.

For the Victorian election there is a much greater range of offerings, but not quite as funny, with the Liberals leading the pack in terms of quantity. What seems like the entire Liberals catalogue of election ads is there, featuring lots of Ted Baillieu on public transport, country doctors, Budget surpluses, water and tech schools. Liberal Clem Newton-Brown, who is standing in Prahran also has an epic clip available, but he may want to change his tagging from the "Victroian" election to up his hits.

But let's go for the humour and we'll get back to the serious stuff later. As the election kicked off, a protesting duck greeted Premier Steve Bracks as he headed to see the Governor. Inspiring Story! Free Hugs Campaign (music by sick puppies)