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TikTok Adds Automated Captions, Making Platform More Open to Deaf People

Advocates welcome the new feature, the latest move among social media companies to make their platforms more accessible to all

Users will be able to edit the captions that come up in TikTok’s new feature, and, for now, they will only be available in American English and Japanese.

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April 20, 2021 2:23 pm ET

TikTok is introducing automated captions, a feature that will add subtitles to [...]

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