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October 2, 2006

Google Video offers Closed Caption playback « sgLEAD

Filed under: Technology

Singapore Librarians for Empowerment & Advocacy for the Disabled (sgLEAD) has a neat demo on how close captioning helps even the hearing too.

The Closed Captioning feature in Google Video will be a boon to those who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired, especially when services like Google Video and other similar video-sharing platforms are gaining popularity. To appreciate why features like Closed Captioning are important to a person with hearing-impairment, try this experiment:

Read on…

Learn more about sgLead here.

P/S: I so love libraries! Along with being a zookeeper, being a librarian is one of my unfulfilled childhood ambitions. :)

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  1. Great news! Now I’m wondering how to add these closed captions to my videos.

    Comment by Daniel Greene — October 4, 2006 @ 5:15 am

  2. Hi Daniel,
    Check out this url from Google on adding CC to your videos :)

    http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26577

    Comment by Dictatorial Editor — October 4, 2006 @ 10:18 pm

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