Neowin News Feed for: Captions

The Microsoft Teams public preview adds a way to customize captions in meetings

John Callaham — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:00:01 +0000

The new feature will allow users to change the font color and size of captions in Microsoft Teams Meetings, along with other options like increasing the number of lines that are shown on the screen. Read more...

WhatsApp improves polls, forwarding captions, and shared document captions

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:22:01 +0000

WhatsApp is getting a new update that enables single-vote polls and captions where users get a bit more control. The update has already started rolling out but it could take a few weeks to complete. Read more...

Change the closed caption text size of streaming apps on a Smart TV

Steven Parker — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:00:01 +0000

Sometimes a streaming app will not have any subtitle style settings, for that you will have to set your preferences such as the size in your device's preferences. Here's how you can do that. Read more...

TikTok turns on AI-generated captions and translations for all content and stickers

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:04:01 +0000

TikTok has given accessibility a big boost by giving users the ability to switch on captions. Viewers can switch on AI-generated subtitles and will be able to rely on translations as well. Read more...

Twitter has fixed Closed Captioning's weird behaviour with a simple button

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:40:01 +0000

Twitter is gradually rolling out a new CC button that offers its users the ability to switch on or off the Closed Captions for a video. Previously, subtitles would just vanish if audio was unmuted. Read more...

Instagram now offers auto-generated captions to videos, 17 languages supported at launch

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:56:01 +0000

Videos on Instagram will have auto-generated captions, and the feature will be enabled for all. Users can choose subtitles from 17 languages. The AI should get better with more users and languages. Read more...

Twitter adds captions to voice tweets for enhanced user accessibility

Fiza Ali — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:30:01 +0000

After a year of criticism, Twitter is finally introducing automatically generated captions to the voice tweets feature. The latest improvement addresses accessibility concerns for iOS users. Read more...

TikTok will automatically generate subtitles for videos in accessibility push

Usman Khan Lodhi — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:00:01 +0000

TikTok creators will soon be able to add automatically generated captions to their videos. The option will appear on the editing page after a video has been uploaded or recorded by the creator. Read more...

Google Duo gains captions support for recorded video and voice messages

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:14:01 +0000

Google Duo has been updated to add caption support for recorded voice and video messages that could be useful in noisy environments. It is available in both Android and iOS versions of the app. Read more...