TikTok has introduced “auto captions”, a feature to help people who are hard of hearing or hearing challenged.
Auto captions automatically generate subtitles, allowing viewers to read or listen to Content. As creators make Content, they can select auto captions in the editing page after they’ve uploaded or recorded a video so that text is automatically transcribed & displayed on their videos, said TikTok in a statement.
Captions added by creators are part of the video Content, & in the event a viewer wants to turn them off they can do so by opening the share panel, tapping the captions button, & setting captions to off. This feature will initially be available in American English & Japanese, with additional language support in the coming months.
