From PC Mag: Instagram feed videos now feature auto-generated captions—an accessibility boost for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or prefer watching videos without sound.
"It's a long time coming," company CEO Adam Mosseri tweeted on Tuesday. "But we're excited to share a new tool that empowers those in the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities."
Instagram uses speech recognition technology to automatically create captions, which appear as text at the bottom of the screen. Users can visit Settings > Account > Captions to remove the transcript. It's unclear exactly how to opt into automatic subtitles for your own video posts, though.
"We've noticed that our community has implemented time-consuming and labor-intensive 'workarounds' (burning-in captions on videos, outsourcing captioning work) in an effort to make their content more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing viewers," an Instagram spokesperson told CNET. "Auto-generated captions on IG video will help people save time by spending less time captioning and more time creating amazing content."
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