auto captions
Machine-transcribed spoken words
Auto captions are subtitles automatically generated by software rather than typed by a human.
Video platforms and conferencing apps use speech recognition to produce them in real time: Turn on auto captions so I can follow along.
The quality varies—proper nouns and technical terms often come out garbled.
Also called automatic captions or autocaptions.
- subtitlesOn-screen dialogue text
- transcriptionWritten version of speech
- accessibilityEase of approach
- hard of hearingReduced auditory ability
- speech-to-textAudio-to-written conversion technology
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