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Facebook has announced better accessibility on its live streaming platform, adding closed captioning to Facebook Live. The move aims to make Facebook’s video streaming option more inclusive for individuals who are deaf or otherwise have trouble hearing. The company says the new feature is ‘a key part of building [a] global community,’ though it will depend on publishers, too — they have to take advantage of the feature for captioning to show up on their videos.

Close captioning, of course, adds text transcription overlays onto videos, making it possible to read the text when necessary. According to the company, Facebook Live viewing has increased four-fold over the last year, so much so that now one out of every five Facebook video is being broadcast live. That makes better accessibility important.

Facebook has long offered closed captioning support for its videos — the ones that aren’t live, that is — assuming publishers include captioning with their content. Publishers who can’t or don’t want to take the time to create captions can utilize Facebook’s speech recognition technology to have them automatically generated. According to the company, publishers can add CEA-608 standard closed captions for their live broadcasts, or they can use third-party captioning services.

Instructions

On the user end of things, you’ll need to make sure you have close captioning enabled in order to see the captions. To do this, click the “down arrow” icon if you’re on desktop, then select ‘Videos.’ From there, click ‘Off,’ then select ‘Always Show Captions.’

You can also turn the captions on from within the iOS app by tapping ‘Settings,’ then ‘General >Accessibility >Subtitles & Captioning.’ Toggle on the option for ‘Closed Captions + SDH.’

SOURCE: Facebook

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Provides closed captioning via Google Cloud Speech Recognition API as a standalone OBS plugin. It's fully optional to viewers and uses Twitch's built in caption support which works on livestreams and in VODs on PC, Android and iOS, no Twitch extension required.
Features:

• Captions only when the microphone source is unmuted and active to ensure safety
• Works live and in VODs, no Twitch extension required
• Completely optional for viewers
• Supports OBS delay
• Requires no extra tools or website open
• Supports many common languages with western character sets

Notes:

• The caption delay is usually less than half a second and should not be noticeable to viewers.
• The plugin only captions the selected audio source when it's not muted and when it's used on the current active scene to ensure safety and avoid any captioning when the mic is muted for the stream.
• Video players with caption support like VLC can also show captions on downloaded VODs if enabled.
• Only tested on Twitch.tv, other streaming services with native caption support might work but not very likely.
• You can enable and disable the caption preview dock in OBS under View -> Docks -> Captions
• The quality of Google's Speech Recognition heavily depends on the speaker and what is being said. The results are usually be pretty good in normal conversational settings like talking to chat but the recognition quality can go down noticeably when using ingame terms or other specialized vocabulary or during hectic speaking.

Live Closed Captioning Software Mac Reviews

Captions should be off by default for most viewers but Twitch does sometimes have them enabled for some viewers for unknown reasons so occasionally some will be confused on how to turn them off and might need it explained.

Closed Captioning Software For Mac

• On PC viewers can turn captions on and off using the CC button on the bottom right of the player.
• On iOS it's a system wide setting: Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Subtitles & Captioning -> Closed Captions + SHD
  • If it's already off but viewers still see captions they have to turn it on and off again (appears to be a bug on some iOS versions)
• On Android it's Closed Captions under the player settings options right beneath the quality selection. The option will only show up once the streamer has talked.

Requires OBS 23.2.1 (released June 15th 2019) or newer!