Hi! I'm Kris of rozenkris14! Rose and I both would like there to be more accessibility options available to smaller streamers and to viewers. We both recognize that closed captioning is helpful to the deaf/hearing impaired but it's only accessible to affiliates and partners. We also understand that closed captioning isn't the greatest in it's current state, but, we would like to be as inclusive as possible to our viewers, and we are pretty sure other people feel the same way. Thank you, Kriskristen14 and Rosekoi of rozenkris14

It would be great, not just for the hearing impaired or those with auditory processing disorders. I've been in a chat before where it was simply everyone subtitling because someone was having a hard time understanding or keeping up.

This should not be so difficult. I have spent hours trying to configure CC into my streams. My viewers should not have to struggle to understand my streams. No viewers should. If you're not going to add CC anytime soon, PLEASE create a guide for configuring the overlay for small streamers!

Thiiiiis. It's so important and it's definitely possible. It should be a setting of the player, not an extension. It should just... be there. The Stream Closed Captioner by Gooseman is good in that it is moveable and you can change the size, etc, etc... but the fact that it needs to be a separate 3rd party rather than an available service makes us choose between other fun user experiences and necessary accessibility, it's also another thing we have to have running in the background, etc... it's just ridiculous there is no in house option. I hope that changes for all streams someday.

Dear Twitch, i always enjoy looking to my favourite channel or streamer playing my favourite game. So you are wondering, where is the problem? Often I am forced to follow the stream without the ability to hear what the entertainer says, because I don't have the ability to do so. This happens when I am in the office or outdoors without headphones. So, finding myself in trouble, I don't fully enjoy the stream and give up watching it. So I'm wondering, is it possible to consider the idea of ​​implementing an option to activate automatic speech recognition with related subtitles, in the language spoken by the streamer?
Although these may be incorrect subtitles, they would still allow you to better enjoy the stream in almost all of its content.

Thanks for your attention,
greetings,
Stefano.

As a deaf streamer & viewer here, I totally agree to this. It should be available to every channels out which should be more accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Hello, all.
I'm Japanese and I have some favorite streamers in Twitch. But I have no ability to understand what they say in English completely...
This is just due to my incompetence, but I want to manage to do it.
I tried to dictate by putting a mic closer to the spaker with turning Google Voice Recognition on. It was almost alright, but difficult to recognize long sentenses or for a long time.

Then I would like to request a function that subtitles are automatically generated by recognizing their voices.
I want to grow up with my favorite streamers.
It is OK for the Twitch Prime members or as a new billing system.

Best Regards.

Yes! This is the one!

I agree - but I echo the sentiments below. It is needed for all streams. Purr.

Having streamers implement their own closed captioning source means that the majority of streamers out there won't have it or don't know how to implement it.

Integrating Google or Microsoft's speech recognition technology by default could help those hard of hearing enjoy more content.

^^^ This 100%. The point of accessibility is that it is ACCESSIBLE.

All streams, not just affiliate and partner. Accessibility should never be locked behind achievements.

Add Closed Captions to all streams and not just large streams

Every channel on Twitch should be accessible to folks who cannot hear the content or need to be able to read along with the broadcaster.

Let's make closed captioning for every affiliate and partner channel available to everyone without a Twitch extension

Special events have subtitles or closed captions but I think it should be a standard feature. I was talking with squishiikitty and tacobagged, both streamers on twitch and we thought you should make them a standard feature so those who are hearing impaired can enjiynthr streams as well. All need to be included. Maybe let the streamer allow them through a feature or give the viewer a button to click on the stream page/video player or put it in their settings with a slider to enable them for all streams they watch.