Thank you so much for making this video and including the different considerations and use cases. This was so helpful! Most of the other videos out there just share “here’s how to do this easily” rather than really go into what is it that those solutions really offer and thinking about it from the lens of different people who might actually rely on those solutions. Of course it’s unfortunate that the ones out there are all still lacking but at least this helped to get more clear on what and how to choose. Thanks again! If you find a better solution in the future, would love an update.
Watching this, it seems like an ideal solution would be the speech recognition of Web Captioner feeding into the default Twitch captions, but with Twitch enabling granular caption placement. I’ve been looking into how to handle captioning online and this was a really informative video. Thanks!
This was my initial hope at first, especially when I saw that Web Captioner started allowing sending captions to OBS via the Websocket, so I was very disappointed to see that it just sends the first 'set' of data; it's hard to describe but the short version is that if you look at Web Captioner side by side with what it sends to the web socket the two sets are quite different. It does seem to be theoretically possible, but I've barely seen a line of code in my life. Fingers crossed for Twitch to make improvements!
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I tried to do closed captions quite awhile ago but what I was trying wasn't working and I got overwhelmed. I think I have it sorted out now thanks to this video.
EDIT: coming back six months later to say 'oh god, what even IS this audio mixing, why am I so quiet' Do any of these methods suit your use-case scenario? Have you learned a little more about accessibility on Twitch because of this video? If so, please remember that everything in it is just gathering and curating the work of many accessibility activists before me and streamers who go to the extra effort to make their content accessible; check out their links in the description box!
Hey, thank you for such an informative video, could you tell me if there is a way to auto translate CC? I stream for 2 language speakers (English & Georgian)
Sorry for the delay on this! I had a look and you do have a couple options but they aren't great. The first is not auto-translation, but having one be softcoded as closed captions and the other baked into the stream from a voice to text translation app or website (I don't believe WebCaptioner does this). One of the more popular is eddieoz' OBS-live-translation on github. It turns out that ONE of the extensions in this video, Stream Closed Captioner by talk2megooseman, does allow for translation but it's a paid service; you or a chat member would have to pay a certain number of bits to have live translation available for the viewers for 24 hours, because it costs the developer money to allow the translation service. I would hope that, at a future point in time, Twitch enables server-side translation for all captions sent as a separate data stream.
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Thank you so much for making this video and including the different considerations and use cases. This was so helpful! Most of the other videos out there just share “here’s how to do this easily” rather than really go into what is it that those solutions really offer and thinking about it from the lens of different people who might actually rely on those solutions. Of course it’s unfortunate that the ones out there are all still lacking but at least this helped to get more clear on what and how to choose. Thanks again! If you find a better solution in the future, would love an update.
Watching this, it seems like an ideal solution would be the speech recognition of Web Captioner feeding into the default Twitch captions, but with Twitch enabling granular caption placement. I’ve been looking into how to handle captioning online and this was a really informative video. Thanks!
This was my initial hope at first, especially when I saw that Web Captioner started allowing sending captions to OBS via the Websocket, so I was very disappointed to see that it just sends the first 'set' of data; it's hard to describe but the short version is that if you look at Web Captioner side by side with what it sends to the web socket the two sets are quite different.
It does seem to be theoretically possible, but I've barely seen a line of code in my life. Fingers crossed for Twitch to make improvements!
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I tried to do closed captions quite awhile ago but what I was trying wasn't working and I got overwhelmed. I think I have it sorted out now thanks to this video.
EDIT: coming back six months later to say 'oh god, what even IS this audio mixing, why am I so quiet'
Do any of these methods suit your use-case scenario? Have you learned a little more about accessibility on Twitch because of this video? If so, please remember that everything in it is just gathering and curating the work of many accessibility activists before me and streamers who go to the extra effort to make their content accessible; check out their links in the description box!
Thank you so much!!
Hey, thank you for such an informative video, could you tell me if there is a way to auto translate CC? I stream for 2 language speakers (English & Georgian)
Sorry for the delay on this! I had a look and you do have a couple options but they aren't great. The first is not auto-translation, but having one be softcoded as closed captions and the other baked into the stream from a voice to text translation app or website (I don't believe WebCaptioner does this). One of the more popular is eddieoz' OBS-live-translation on github.
It turns out that ONE of the extensions in this video, Stream Closed Captioner by talk2megooseman, does allow for translation but it's a paid service; you or a chat member would have to pay a certain number of bits to have live translation available for the viewers for 24 hours, because it costs the developer money to allow the translation service.
I would hope that, at a future point in time, Twitch enables server-side translation for all captions sent as a separate data stream.