YouTube Live Captioning is a service that provides real-time captions for live video streams on YouTube. This service is designed to make live content more accessible to a wider audience, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as those who speak a different language or are learning English.
To use this service, creators can enable live captions while they are streaming a video. The captions are generated automatically using speech recognition technology and can be edited or corrected by a human transcriber in real-time. Viewers can then turn on the captions by selecting the "CC" (closed captions) button in the video player.
Live captions are not perfect, and there may be errors or delays. However, they can provide a helpful and convenient way for viewers to follow along with the content of a live stream. YouTube Live Captioning is available in multiple languages, and creators can choose which languages they want to enable for their streams.