Script: Welcome to this weeks SEO Video Blog, We are looking at Google‘s Audio indexing capabilities and what it could mean for Video SEO.

You tube has recently released some new caption technology, automatic speech recognition or ASR.

We were impressed on two levels, firstly they have created the ability to simply upload a .txt file of the script will automatically synchronize with the video.

Secondly the ability to recognize audio and automatically create a caption file, which essentially turns an audio file into real text. This is a more obvious step forward for audio indexing and an evolution of Google labs gaudi which is still in the development stages on the political channel of youtube.

Lets have a look at the caption software in action.

So once you are logged in and you can see your videos, you can see the options to click caption. then ‘add new captions ot transcript’. Browse for the file and select transcript file only. This means you haven’t got time codes included in the document. then simply Upload the file.

The auto timing functionality works via speech recognition technology, the technology makes life much easier and will work best for video with high quality sound and that are clearly spoken.

Audio indexing will allow webmasters to embed the video without having to add a keyword rich content to the video landing page as the information will be found via speech-to-text indexing in the video.

Thanks for watching if you have any questions or comments please leave them on the youtube channel or supporting blog post.