As of December 14, 2021 social media giant announced that they will be enabling auto-captions (CC) for all video content.
Twitter says, “Where are video captions when you need them? They’re here now automatically on videos uploaded starting today. Android & iOS: auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos; keep them on when unmuted via your device’s accessibility settings Web: use the “CC” button to turn on/off.”
Where are video captions when you need them? They’re here now automatically on videos uploaded starting today.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 14, 2021
Android & iOS: auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos; keep them on when unmuted via your device's accessibility settings
Web: use the "CC" button to turn on/off pic.twitter.com/IHJAI31IvX
Twitter’s auto captions are available in 37 languages, and while translation is not available as yet, the captions will appear in the language of the device used to upload the clip.
Also, a key downside, Twitter’s auto captions are not editable at this stage. Both translation and editing tools are still in development.
As Twitter notes, auto captions will now show on muted videos on iOS and Android, while you can also tap the ‘CC’ button on desktop to view auto caption text. You can read more about Twitter’s various auto-caption tools here.
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