YouTube often has multiple and varying options for subtitles which are inaccessible in game, from user made subtitles to auto generated, as well as the auto translation feature. I believe this would be a great accessibility setting as well as allowing users who speak different languages to share content amongst each other.
Provided they are able to be requested through YouTube’s API.
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Unfortunately requesting them from their API will add another API call, which costs money each time sadly.
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Man, it’s been 2 years since this topic was started, and I can’t stop thinking about it… I kind of wanna bring it back, because I still think something like this would be greatly useful so, some ideas: Maybe you guys could generate your own subtitles in some way and display them over media players videos or on-screen, kinda like subtitles work in Source 1 from Valve? The whole dialog box NPCs use could also be potentially repurposed for that in some way. These are just ideas though - I don’t know if any of this would have had been worth it, technically feasible or anything, but I do think it’s still worth giving subtitle system more consideration - The lack of subtitles for media players is one of major reasons for why I don’t watch videos with anyone in Tower, whether in public or in private, so that’s why I hope for further talks on this topic.
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