bbsger.blogg.se - Auto generated closed captions

Why can't YouTube have a button for it to try and auto generate it!

And I have to explain "I always have auto-captions turned on for my videos, just sometimes YouTube messes up and doesn't do it". I've had some viewers complain to me "can you turn on auto-captions for this video?" One of my viewers emailed me and was deaf and I really felt bad about it. There is no way for me to tell YouTube "no you've made a mistake, there is in fact spoken audio in this video I need you to auto-caption it". But sometimes it doesn't, I don't know why. TikTok is a place for everyone and we're working hard to better serve everyone in our community.85% of the time, YouTube autogenerates subtitles for my YouTube videos no problem. By working with organizations like The Deaf Collective, we aim to increase awareness towards the range of diversity, talent, and conversations being had in Deaf communities.Īs we advance this work, we'll continue to share news and updates with our community in an effort to be transparent and share the progress made. We're currently undertaking an accessibility assessment to identify additional areas for improvement, and we're increasing our outreach to organizations and communities with disabilities on TikTok to uplift their voices and make changes that better serve us all. Our goal at TikTok is to be accessible to all people, and we're committed to doing the work long-term.

A text-to-speech feature which converts text to voice.

A photosensitivity feature allows users to skip photosensitive content, which can be harmful for people with epilepsy.

A creator warning that notifies creators when they produce videos with effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy.

An animated thumbnail that replaces animated thumbnails with static images.

To date, our work on accessibility includes: Given the visual nature of our platform, we've designed a number of improvements, starting with features that help those with visual impairments. We are working with our community to spread the word and encourage all creators to use auto captions and other features that make content more accessible.Īuto captions builds on a number of features we've developed to make TikTok more accessible to everyone.

This feature will initially be available in American English and Japanese, with additional language support in the coming months. Captions added by creators are part of the video content, and in the event a viewer wants to turn them off they can do so by opening the share panel, tapping the captions button, and setting captions to off.