> Read captions from the livestreamed sessions in real-time. Plus, to make sure all our content is accessible, all remaining videos will also be captioned. For international developers, captions will be machine translated to all languages that are supported by Google Translate.
This looks like the most interesting announcement. I assume the English text will be provided by a human captioner, but even so, this shows a lot of confidence in their translation system. I wonder if they'll be buffering at the sentence level, or whether they can handle partial sentences on the fly.
The author, Matt King, says he recently got into Javascript through Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts," and seems to be knocking it out of the park:
http://mking.me/
This looks like the most interesting announcement. I assume the English text will be provided by a human captioner, but even so, this shows a lot of confidence in their translation system. I wonder if they'll be buffering at the sentence level, or whether they can handle partial sentences on the fly.