Subtitles for Web pages

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I know I can turn on subtitles with Win-Ctrl-L in web pages.  But each time it seems it has to re-set itself before working.

Is there some way to set it up so that then it is purely an on/off and thereby faster?

Chuck Billow

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Surely that is not a valid key set?

Win L locks Windows. Miss the Ctrl and you are in trouble.
Ctrl L is left align in Word.
Use of the Win key by apps is discouraged by MS.

What program are you using that uses that combination?

cheers, Paul

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Paul:

 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=shortcut+key+to+turn+on+captions+in+edge&cvid=39b1c94126ea4eb8938f3bae4915dfe4&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQkxNjY0N2owajmoAgiwAgE&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS

Chuck

 

Chuck Billow

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Win+Ctrl+L is the official Windows keyboard shortcut for Live Captions:

Use live captions to better understand audio

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Paul, here it is:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/how-to-enable-captions-on-microsoft-edge-version/14c1d35f-2d1e-40dc-8f21-ed530e7745a5

Chuck

Chuck Billow

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That is a system setting controlled in the Accessibility section of Settings. It is up to an application to support this setting.

Are you saying you have to turn it back on each time you start the browser?

Or is it after a re-boot?

 

--Joe

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Joe, it seems any time I turn on subtitles, it goes through this reestablishment of the connections.  I don’t have them on all the time, but when needed for clarity of the dialogue …

Chuck Billow

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If your browser requests a video that doesn’t have subtitles enabled and then you decide you want subtitles, it has to resend the request (i.e. reestablish the connection) asking the site to turn on subtitles.

If Live Captions was enabled, the initial request for the video would always ask the site to turn on subtitles and you wouldn’t have this problem!

Of course, with Live Captions enabled, you’d experience the exact reverse effect if you decided you didn’t want subtitles because your browser would have to resend a request to the site to turn off subtitles.

BTW, when viewing videos that are stored locally, the same thing happens when you switch subtitles on/off but you never notice the delay because it only takes a few milliseconds for it to happen when dealing with a local source.

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No requests are sent to sites; Live captions are generated locally:

Important: All processing of audio and generation of captions from detected voice data occurs on-device.

Use live captions to better understand audio

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