TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push

However, a TikTok dialogue box also says the feature is useful for anyone watching videos “when it’s difficult or inconvenient for them to listen to audio.” Creators can edit their captions after they’ve been automatically generated to fix any mistakes, and viewers can turn captions off via the captions button on the share panel.

As automatic transcription has gotten better over the years, services have increasingly been adding it to their software to make content more accessible.

Last month, Google built the feature into Chrome, allowing it to generate captions for audio played through the browser.