Chrome Can Caption Audio and Video

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It is important to think about accessibility for your content when doing affiliate marketing. It should be a part of your checklist, and will be the first to admit that it has not been on my mind at all to make sure that people with issues of hearing or seeing, can access my content.


Google has made this easier by adding Live Caption capability in Google Chrome. This feature of Chrome will make it easier to access audio and video in a noisy environment, or if you are hard of hearing.

The Live Caption is generating automatic captions to the video or audio content you are consuming. According to Google, It works on most of what you visit on the Internet like:

  • social sites
  • video sites
  • podcasts
  • radio content
  • personal video libraries like Google Photo
  • Embedded video players
  • web-based video or chat service


So to make it easier for your audience to access your content, advise them to use Chrome with the Live Caption feature enabled.

I have not tested this feature yet but will try it at the first opportunity.

I am not aware of other web browsers are offering the same feature as Chrome does.

Roy

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Hey Roy, FYI, I finally fixed the bug in Chrome on my own to get the captioning feature to work. As you know, I am Deaf, I use capital D rather than lower case deaf because I belong to the Deaf community and from faith generation of Deaf family, using American Sign Language (ASL) as my first language.

At first, there was a problem with the LogIn button to sign in to WA Platform last Friday and finally got Site Support to fix it and now the login works. I use Safari as my preferred browser. I decided to try to test to see if Chrome works for Jay's training. It shows captioning on the replays but I have not yet tried it live on Friday nights will do it this Friday and see if that works live as compared to the replays.

I want to show you the screenshot of Jay's training with Chrome captioning. It works now. I had to fix a coding error and finally it worked. See the screenshot. I plan to make a blog post about my experience soon. Thanks Roy for sharing this post.

That is super news, Brenda :-). I have had the chance to test it out the last few days myself and I am impressed by how well it works so far.

Roy

Does it do it for Jay’s live meetings on Friday nights? I tried that, it didnt work because its WA’s platform. I am Deaf and need that captioning feature. I use Safari. Chrome doesnt always work for their captioning. FYI, its a little bit misleading and probably has some bugs that they need to fix. Its a new feature that they just added.

I haven´t tried it on JAy´s live training on Fridays, but the feature works flawlessly on my Chrome installation on my MacBook. also on WA training and classes.

I haven´t discovered any bugs yet.

Roy

We should experiment with that tonight at Jay’s training. I ought to try it myself on my new M1 MacBook Pro and see if the captioning features work on the sites you mentioned.

Thanks Roy

My pleasure!

Roy

Nice find Roy. I have several videos so will try it out

Going to be interesting to hear about your experience with the feature :-)

Roy

Does the caption come on automatically or is it an opt in

You need to go into settings -accessibility - and turn on the direct texting option, and it should work.

Roy

Okay, cool thanks buddy. I will respond to that other item later. Was swamped.

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