From now on, the social network will now automatically subtitle new videos that will be uploaded there.
Between the minor bug fixes and the very discreet improvements, like on the quality of photos and videos, Twitter often does not benefit from real substantial improvements. However, this is the case with the new update, which will introduce an automatic subtitle function.
In a statement released yesterday, the blue bird network announced that this feature will be deployed on both iOS and Android, and in several languages, including French. Very soon, therefore, we will be able to benefit from automatic subtitling, which is very practical when the original language is not spoken, or for people who have hearing problems.
However, this new system has significant limitations. To generate the subtitles, Twitter will perform a new processing step when the video is uploaded to the social network. This means that videos already uploaded before the deadline will not be affected by captions.
Note also that according to The Verge, this first version does not yet include an option to report imprecise or inappropriate subtitling. This functionality could possibly be integrated later.
In any case, let’s hope that the launch of this new accessibility feature will go better than the launch of voice tweets. As a reminder, the social network had ignored the subtitles during the launch of this feature; he was later caught by the patrol for his overall lack of accessibility options, before catching up on shooting this summer.
According to The Verge, Twitter now has two teams dedicated exclusively to accessibility. We can therefore expect that new features of this kind will flourish there in the future under the leadership of new CEO Parag Agrawal, who replaced Jack Dorsey two weeks ago.
