Support for reading subtitles in videos, i.e. continuous and refreshable OCR

[nvaccessAuto]

Reported by nvdakor on 2012-11-15 06:59
Hi,
A number of users use a screen reader which reads subtitles on videos (for example, language subtitles for foreign film videos). Currently, NVDA does not read subtitles present in some videos, so would it be possible to allow NVDA to read them? Thanks.

[nvaccessAuto]

Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-11-21 01:32
Please provide an example URL or application. The way subtitles are implemented differs greatly between video players. It'd also be good to know what screen readers do this.

[nvaccessAuto]

Comment 2 by nvdakor on 2012-11-21 11:06
Hi,
Just asked some users. They told me that they're using a Korean screen reader called Sense Reader. They are also using GOM player, as this is the only media player that people can listen to subtitles using Sense Reader. In addition, users suggested adding subtitle reading support for VLC media player as well. Thanks.

[nvaccessAuto]

Comment 3 by jteh on 2013-02-10 22:48
We can't add support for this unless the player exposes them to accessibility or native APIs.

[nvaccessAuto]

Comment 4 by vortex on 2013-04-12 23:56
I wrote a program which can do this for external subtitle files, and it is compatible with NVDA. You cand find more at:
my website

[surfer0627]

A company named CatchPlay, use Brightcove's Video Cloud service. It seems that NVDA could report captions. Here is a 5 minutes demo.

notes:

• Captioning, is more commonly used as a service to aid deaf and hearing-impaired audiences. They are more adaptable to live broadcasts, such as news broadcasts, sports events and television shows broadcast live. Usually, captions (also called closed captions) appear as white text within a black box, appearing a second or two after being spoken.

• Brightcove: provide Cloud Video platform.
• CatchPlay: provide streaming service in Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia.

[LeonarddeR]

cc @josephsl

[ehollig]

CC @josephsl for further clerification

[mirovg]

GOM Player: F5 - Others - Accessibility - Turn on "Outputing subtitles as window titles for the voice output program". Works with NVDA. Sometimes dont work at first so I try it 2 - 3 times again, but finaly it woks corretly.

[fernando-jose-silva]

I've heard voice over demos for iphone reading subtitles on netflix.
I do not know how nvda behaves on netflix, unfortunately I am not a user of this movie platform.
But if the voice over can, if netflix provides the same features for the web interface or some application for windows 10 nvda could also offer this functionality.

[OzancanKaratas]

How can we support the Netflix website for this issue?

[Adriani90]

@florianionascu7 a romanian guy developed an addon for reading subtitles. Do you know hit profile on Github? Maybe he can contribute here by raising a pull request.