Twitter was criticized for launching voice tweets without captions.
Twitter is currently rolling out subtitles for voice tweets, the company revealed Thursday. Twitter originally introduced voice tweets in June 2020, but they were quickly slammed at the time by access supporters for not having inscriptions.
Now, when you create a voice tweet (something you can only do on the iPhone app today), captions will be automatically generated in supported languages, which are English, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, French, Italian, Oriental, and also Indonesian.
To view the subtitles on a tweet, you can tap the cc or click a representation in the top-right of the voice tweet. Captions only show up on brand-new voice tweets; Twitter informs The Verge to make sure that you will not see them on older ones.
Here is a screenshot of what the captions and also the CC icon look like on the web,
When voice tweets were released, it also emerged that there had not been a devoted group at Twitter for ease of access at the time; instead, workers had to offer their own time for access jobs. The business has repaired that, revealing that it had created groups to focus on access in September.
” As part of our ongoing job to make Twitter available for everybody, we’re turning out automated captions for Voice Tweets to iPhone,” Twitter’s head of worldwide ease of access, Gurpreet Kaur stated in a statement. “Though it’s still early as well as we know it will not be ideal at first, it is among numerous steps we’re taking to broaden and enhance ease of access throughout our solution, and we anticipate continuing our trip to produce a truly inclusive solution.”
Twitter additionally supplies subtitles in Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse-like social audio spaces.