More than 1bn YouTube videos have automated captions

The number of YouTube videos with automatic captions now exceeds 1bn – and consumers watch videos with said captions more than 15m times per day, the platform said.
Google first launched video captions in 2006. It added automated captions on YouTube in 2009.
“This was a big leap forward to help us keep up with YouTube’s growing scale,” Product Manager Liat Kaver wrote in a blog post.
In addition, Kaver noted YouTube has made great strides in terms of t