Twitter Voice Tweets – Twitter Adds Captions For Voice Tweets: In June 2020, the Twitter voice tweets option was launched. Now the micro-blogging site Twitter has enabled the captions feature for the voice tweets.
As per The Verge, when users make a voice tweet, right now available on an iOS app, automatically captions will be generated in supported languages.
Twitter’s head of global accessibility, Gurpreet Kaur said, “To make Twitter accessible for everyone, we are adding automated captions for voice tweets in iOS.”
Kaur added, “We know it is early and at first, it won’t be perfect, it is one of the many steps that we are taking to expand and strengthen accessibility across our service, and we look forward to creating a truly inclusive service.”
At present, the supported languages are English, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, French, Arabic, Korean, Indonesian, and Italian.
To see the captions on a tweet, users can tap or click the CC icon in the top-right corner of the voice tweet window. The captions are available for new voice tweets only, Twitter told the tech website.
The report said when voice tweets were launched, at that time, there was not a dedicated team at Twitter for accessibility. For the accessibility work, employees had to volunteer their own time.
The company fixed that in September, announcing that it had formed teams to focus on accessibility, it added.
Twitter offers captions in Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse-like social audio rooms also.
