Twitter officially pushes closed video captions switch to Android/iOS users

After opening a pilot to a small number of iPhone users in April, Twitter has finally started rolling out closed captioning toggles to iOS/Android clients. Previously, people often had to rely on the accessibility settings provided by the device to experience subtitles without exposing the sound to the public.

Now, if there are subtitles available, the button will appear in the upper right corner of the video, and Android/iOS users can freely choose to view it or not. Twitter spokesperson Shaokyi AMD o replied in an email that the company hopes the move will encourage more people to upload subtitled videos to Twitter and that the button will only appear on videos that already contain subtitles, and is not compatible with automatic subtitles. The system is irrelevant.

The Verge used the example of a tweet from June 14 that embedded a trailer for a Netflix show (with a subtitle file attached). However, in the early days of the launch, this video subtitle function is not perfect – for example, sometimes the subtitles cannot be played, and occasionally the video will be stuck after clicking the button.

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