Even if they haven’t been added by the video maker, TikTok is striving to make it simple for people to watch films with automatically generated subtitles that can be turned on or off by viewers. The change was described in an announcement blog post from yesterday.
When it was first released in 2021, the function had a few drawbacks, namely the requirement that producers allow auto-generated subtitles on their films before publishing. The author had to delete the post and re-post it after it was published since they were unable to alter it and add subtitles.
A translation function is also being added to the social media app so that users may translate captions, descriptions, and stickers. The message of each video had to be pieced together by the user before each phrase could be translated and outsourced.
Regardless of the language(s) you speak or where you are in the world, TikTok believes that “through these efforts, global content will become more accessible.”
The business plans to add more languages, although at first auto-captions and translations will only be offered in English, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Turkish.
