CNet reports that YouTube has now turned on auto-captioning for the entire video site. This means that users who upload videos to YouTube can either upload a text file of a transcription, or add the video to the machine translation queue. Using voice recognition software, your video will become transcribed, which will allow viewers to turn subtitles on while watching your video.

For now, the service is English only, but the possibilities of this service are tremendous. If video transcription becomes commonplace thanks to YouTube’s automation efforts, then perhaps machine translation of the transcribed audio will be next. Since Google owns YouTube, the integration of Google Translate and YouTube is not far fetched. This would advance video learning capabilities the world over, and provide a huge quantity of translated videos.

Of course, video transcription and translation would not be very helpful for the most popular YouTube content—you guessed it, ping pong cats, for which no subtitles are necessary.