Twitter Introduces Automated Captions for Voice Tweets a Year After Its Launch

 Twitter, the social networking behemoth, is finally introducing subtitles for voice tweets. Last year, the business added the functionality of voice tweets.

According to The Verge, Twitter will launch voice tweets in June 2020. Many accessibility activists criticized the feature's lack of subtitles at the time of its debut.

However, subtitles are now available in voice tweets on the microblogging site. Captions will now be created automatically when you make a voice tweet in the supported languages of English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian.

Currently, the functionality is only accessible on iOS. To view a tweet's captions, click or press the CC button in the top-right corner of the voice tweet window. Captions show exclusively on new voice tweets, according to Twitter, so you won't see them on older ones.

When voice tweets were introduced, it was revealed that Twitter did not have a dedicated team for accessibility at the time; instead, staff had to donate their own time for accessibility development. The firm has recently corrected this, saying in September that it had created teams to focus on accessibility.

"As part of our continuous efforts to make Twitter accessible to everyone, we're bringing automatic captions for Voice Tweets to iOS," said Gurpreet Kaur, Twitter's head of worldwide accessibility.

We took your feedback and we’re doing the work. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice Tweets are rolling out today.

Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the captions on web, click the “CC” button. https://t.co/hrdI19Itu6 pic.twitter.com/pDlpOUgV6l

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 15, 2021

"Though it's still early, and we know it won't be perfect at first," Gurpreet continued, "it's one of many efforts we're doing to extend and enhance accessibility across our service, and we look forward to continuing our path to develop a genuinely inclusive service."

Captions are also available in Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse-style communal audio rooms.

This Monday, the microblogging site announced the demise of Fleets, a year-old feature. Within a year of Fleets' inception, the business stated that it believes Fleets has no future and has declared that it would be closing down Fleets on August 3, 2021.

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