DJ Twitter Adds Captions for Voice Tweets After Criticism -- Market Talk
17:20 ET - Twitter is introducing automated captions to voice tweets, a feature it released in June 2020 without the ability to add text, prompting criticism from accessibility advocates who said it excluded people who are deaf or hard of hearing. "As part of our ongoing work to make Twitter accessible for everyone, we're rolling out automated captions for Voice Tweets to iOS," Gurpreet Kaur, head of global accessibility at Twitter, said yesterday. Twitter is the latest social-media company to add automated captions, following in the steps of TikTok, operated by ByteDance Ltd., and Facebook's Instagram. Automated captions, however, present challenges, as accents and background noise can lead to mistaken transcriptions, says Meryl Evans, a digital marketer who is deaf. (ann-marie.alcantara@wsj.com)
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July 16, 2021 17:20 ET (21:20 GMT)
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