Instagram announced on Tuesday that it has brought automatic captions to videos on the homepage. Caption support has been on the social media platform for a while, but creators have to manually add it to their videos. This requirement is now gone.
CEO Adam Mosseri stated in a tweet he shared that the automatic caption feature will provide convenience to deaf and hard of hearing users. While Mosseri noted that the subtitles are optional and can be turned on or off, it was stated that 17 languages are supported in the post on Instagram’s Twitter account.
Instagram auto caption support includes Turkish
According to TechCrunch, auto caption support is Turkish, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Vietnamese, Italian, German, Russian, Thai , is available in 17 languages, including Tagalog, Urdu, Malay, Hindi, Indonesian, and Japanese.
The company also stated that they will support more languages soon. At the same time, emphasizing that the subtitles are created with artificial intelligence, Instagram conveyed the information that the quality of the subtitles will improve as people use the feature. This means that there may be a mismatch between the audio in the video and the auto-generated subtitle, and it will not be permanent.
Instagram announced the new feature with:
We’re excited to share the auto-generated captions feature for streaming videos. With captioning, Instagram will become more accessible to deaf/hard of hearing communities. Turning subtitles on or off is entirely up to you.
In the Instagram application, you can activate video subtitles by going to Settings > Account > Captions. Unfortunately, the language of the subtitle cannot be changed manually. The subtitles are displayed in whatever language you use Instagram. On YouTube, where the same feature is available, there is no such limitation.
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