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And now, it’s going to enable the feature for all videos uploaded to YouTube where English is spoken. In November of last year, the company began to roll out auto-captions on a limited scale, which use speech recognition to automatically transcribe what’s said in a video. Harrenstein walked us through YouTube’s past feature launches, including the launch of captions and subtitles. Google software engineer Ken Harrenstein then took the stage to walk through some of YouTube’s initiatives on this front.

Now, the company is focusing more on making its content accessible to even more people. Walk said that a few years ago, accessibility meant giving users more ways to access their content (for example, through their mobile phones). YouTube Director of Product Management Hunter Walk kicked off the event by discussing some of YouTube’s goals through the years - one of which is accessibility. I’m here at YouTube’s office in San Bruno, where the company is holding a press conference to discuss the launch of auto-captions.

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