YouTube Live gets automatic English captions, live chat replays, and more

YouTube today announced a trio of new features for its YouTube Live streaming service.
Arguably the most interesting of the new features is automatic captions. YouTube has offered captioning functionality since 2006. In 2009, it added automatic captioning to the mix, merging its automatic speech recognition (ASR) smarts with YouTube’s captioning technology to automate the process of creating subtitles in videos. The Google-owned company announced last year that it has passed 1 billion