Actually, subtitles and captioning are a setting in iOS and has been there for a long time. That isn't to say the new text, screen and describe images stuff isn't involved or possibly overlapping with the prior settings. If you go to the main Accessibility Settings screen on your iPhone, In there is the on/off for Audio Descriptions, which is just for enabling or disabling audio descriptions. But, then if you go down to the hearing section, the last item before the General section is Subtitles and Captioning. Open that setting and you have: Closed captions Plus SDH off (which can be turned on) and explains When available, prefer closed captioning or subtitles for the hard of hearing. Then Style, Transparent Background Then, show audio transcriptions, which defaults to off and is for show audio transcriptions for announcements from HomePod.
If that isn't enough, under the VoiceOver settings is an on/off for "Caption Panel" which if on, for sure reads the captioning so if you are watching the news over something like the Xfinity Stream app, you will hear VoiceOver reading what the news person is saying which can be a bit crazy making, unless you go to yet another place, under Verbosity, there is "Media Descriptions" which can be set to off, braille, speech, or speech and braille. It says this is what determines how closed captions Plus SDH are output during media playback. You'd think all of this stuff would be in one place. Richard Ralph's Observation: It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object<>to realize that you are in a hurry. My web site, www.turner42.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 7:20 AM To: viphone <[email protected]> Subject: Possible use for Text Recognition in iOS 14 Good day. I have an example of how Text Recognition could be used in iOS 14. A lot of people have been harsh regarding the Image Recognition and other new recognition features with VoiceOver in iOS 14, and for good reason since some don't work as well as we may want them to. However, I have a possible use for the Text Recognition. I've noticed in several Disney Plus shows and movies recently that Voiceover automatically reads subtitles that show up at the bottom of the screen during the programs. This has happened on some animal shows and the movie "Operation Dumbo Drop". I haven't watched any movies yet that are in other languages, but expect that those English subtitles would also be read. Sometimes I can hear the person speaking the words in addition to VoiceOver reading the subtitles, but not always. Often the speaker's voice is lowered or in the background and is not always easy for this hard of hearing person (me) to hear, so I appreciate the subtitles. 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