Twitter, the social media giant, finally launches captions to voice tweets. Last year, the company introduced the option to send audio tweets. According to The Verge, Twitter launched its voice tweets function in June 2020. Many accessibility advocates condemned the feature at the time of its launch since it lacked captions. However, captions are now available in voice tweets on the microblogging platform.
Captions will be automatically created in the supported languages of English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian when you make a voice tweet now.
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Twitter Launches Captions For Voice Tweets
Currently, the feature is only available on iOS. Click or hit the CC icon in the top-right corner of the voice tweet window to see the captions on a tweet. According to Twitter, captions only appear on new voice tweets, so you won’t see them on previous ones.
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When voice tweets were first introduced, it was revealed that Twitter didn’t have a dedicated accessibility team at the time; instead, staff had to volunteer their own time to help with accessibility. Since then, the company has made improvements, saying in September that it had established teams to work on accessibility.
“As part of our ongoing work to make Twitter accessible for everyone, we’re rolling out automated captions for Voice Tweets to iOS,” Twitter’s head of global accessibility Gurpreet Kaur said in a statement.
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Captions are also available in Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse-style interactive audio rooms. Earlier this week, the microblogging site announced the demise of Fleets, a year-old feature. Within a year of its launch, the company determined that Fleets had no future and declared that it would be closing down on August 3, 2021.
