An example of how poor YouTube's auto-captioning speech-recognition is
YouTube is now automatically using speech-recognition technology to automatically add captions to videos. This is great for deaf people, but the real reason is because it will allow Google to index video in search results based on the video's actual content, not just based on the title and description.
While I applaud their efforts and the future potential of the technology, I checked a couple of my videos and it definitely does not appear to be ready for public release yet.
Here's one of my videos with no background noise. It's just me talking. It's kinda funny to see how they transcribed my English. This is the only video where I'll enable captions with YouTube's default guess. I could edit the captions file if I wanted to and correct all the English, but that would be too much work, although it might be necessary in the future if you want your videos to rank decently.
