It has been 5 years since this was suggested but I want to add my support. There are extensions that add captions but I have never seen more than 10 streamers on the entire platform add them. This makes the appeal of Twitch to Deaf & Hard of Hearing users very low. Twitch should consider integrating these optional speech-to-text captioning extensions directly into twitch and support it as a first class feature within the website, mobile apps, and TV apps such as Chromecast, roku, Tizen, etc so that auto-captions can be turned on at will across the platform.
It has been 5 years since this was suggested but I want to add my support. There are extensions that add captions but I have never seen more than 10 streamers on the entire platform add them. This makes the appeal of Twitch to Deaf & Hard of Hearing users very low. Twitch should consider integrating these optional speech-to-text captioning extensions directly into twitch and support it as a first class feature within the website, mobile apps, and TV apps such as Chromecast, roku, Tizen, etc so that auto-captions can be turned on at will across the platform.