As per YouTube:

“We’re experimenting with advised edits to computerized captions for individuals watching sure EN-language YouTube movies on desktop units. To recommend corrections, open the transcript, click on the ‘pencil’ icon, and enter strategies earlier than clicking the ‘examine mark’ icon.”

As you possibly can see right here, viewers will have the ability to present edits of potential errors within the automated translation. You may then submit your updates by tapping on the tick (or checkmark) icon within the edit field.

The final icon right here is ‘re-play section’ making it simpler to re-listen to a bit to examine once more on what was mentioned.

Any edits that you just make are then despatched by way of to YouTube – although they received’t be seen to the creator.

“Recommended edits will solely be surfaced to the one who edited the transcript themselves and received’t be seen to the creator or the broader YouTube viewers. We’re utilizing this experiment to gather knowledge on the standard of strategies to find out how we are able to use advised edits to enhance the automated captions in addition to our spam and abuse protections.”

So it’s crowd-sourced modifying, which is considerably just like the downvote possibility being examined on TikTok and even Twitter’s Birdwatch program, gathering suggestions from customers to then construct into the broader content material suggestions and evaluation loop, within the hopes of utilizing the knowledge of the gang to assist enhance every course of.

Which might work. I imply, it’s higher to have extra eyes on an issue than counting on inner or creator evaluate, and it might be a easy, efficient manner to assist enhance YouTube’s automated caption system, by figuring out widespread phrases that journey up the system, or making it simpler for YouTube to notice the place errors usually tend to happen, as a way to alert creators.

Or possibly, if it’s actually efficient (and never misused), it might find yourself being a direct channel for viewers to alert creators to errors. There are dangers in that strategy as nicely, however possibly, if YouTube can normalize utilization of the choice, and it gives good suggestions, that might be an enlargement in future.

The check is barely being performed on ‘a small share of movies’ through the desktop app, so it’s possible you’ll not run into it. Nevertheless it might be the beginning of an expanded course of to enhance YouTube’s automated captioning programs.