Twitter introduces captions for its voice tweets

The micro-blogging site Twitter has rolled out captions for voice tweets feature a year after it was launched. The feature enables users to record a snippet of audio that can be included in a tweet.

Twitter introduced the voice tweets feature in June 2020. At the time of the launch, the feature was criticized by many for not including captions in it. However, Twitter has now included this feature on its platform. Now when you make a voice tweet, the captions will be generated automatically.

According to The Verge, the feature is presently available only on iOS and it supports English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean and Italian languages.

Twitter revealed about the new feature via a tweet. The company tweeted, “We took your feedback and we’re doing the work. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice Tweets are rolling out today. Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the captions on web, click the “CC” button.”

On the other hand, Twitter announced the shutdown of its year-old feature – Fleets earlier this week. Within a year of the launch of Fleets, Twitter feels that Fleets has no future and has announced that it is going to shutting down Fleets starting August 3, 2021.