According to TikTok, the feature will be available in two languages at first- American English and Japanese, but it plans to add support for more languages “in the coming months.”
TikTok Brings Automatic Captions to Videos
The new feature will make the TikTok videos easier to watch for deaf and hard of hearing viewers. However, a TikTok dialogue box also says the feature is useful for anyone watching videos “when it’s difficult or inconvenient for them to listen to audio.” TikTok creators are also able to edit their captions after they have been automatically generated to fix any mistakes. Moreover, viewers are also able to turn captions off via the captions button on the share panel. “As automatic transcription has gotten better over the years, services have increasingly been adding it to their software to make content more accessible. Last month, Google built the feature into Chrome, allowing it to generate captions for audio played through the browser”, according to The Verge. Recommended Reading: New ‘Instagram Remix’ copies Tiktok duet feature
