From Slate to theAP, it appears to be unanimous among writers covering Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC: the applause sounded like thunder. And, listening to applause in isolation, it starts to sound ...

YouTube deserves a round of applause — because the video platform can now include [APPLAUSE] and other sound effects in a video’s closed captions automatically. The caption expansion, announced on ...

YouTube has used algorithms to automatically caption speech for eight years now in an effort to make its billions of videos more accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing. While the feature was ...