Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by techdragon on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:06AM
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This was demonstrated as a feature of the AppleTV … on stage no less… however I’ve never been able to get it to work so I’m not entirely sure what’s up with it beyond the original demo that I can’t find a video link and time stamp for. Pretty sure it was the days before apple put the keynotes onto YouTube but I’m sure someone with better memory may know the exact presentation and which part to skip to.
Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by scrumper on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:01AM
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It's a Siri feature, press the mic button and say "What did [he/she] say" and it'll rewind a bit, turn subtitles on, and then turn them off right around the point where you asked. I've found it to be a very well implemented feature. If I use it more than three times or so I'll just tell it to "turn subtitles on" for the duration.
Edit: s_weber below beat me to the punch here, I had my draft up too long :)
Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by c22 on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:03AM
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My Roku TV automatically turns on closed captioning when you use the replay button.
Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by s_weber on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:07AM
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The Apple TV does this (reversing and turning on subtitles temporarily) if you ask Siri something along the lines of „What did they say?“.
Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by mrguyorama on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:43PM
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Of course a useful feature is walled off behind a stupid interface method.
Re:Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
by CRConrad on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:35AM
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Doesn't sound all that stupid to me -- for those people who are into that whole voice interface thing to begin with.
What I'd agree is stupid is if that's the only interface method to get at that feature.
(So it probably is, right?)
What I would really love would be a way to do that and at the same time turn on subtitles (or captions if subtitles aren't available in your language) for N+10 seconds. A separate button for this would be ideal, but a setting that makes the regular skip backward also do the subtitle thing would be fine too.
Alternatively, I'd be OK instead with a "toggle subtitles" button that toggles between subtitles off and subtitles on (with the language being whatever one was last used).