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Apple announced a set of new and updated accessibility features, which are expected to arrive later this year across Apple devices.
One such feature is automatic subtitles feature for video. According to Apple, it will automatically display transcriptions of spoken audio when captions or subtitles are not already present, covering personal videos, clips shared by others, and streamed content. Apple says processing happens on-device across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. At launch, the feature will be available in English in the United States and Canada.
Other hearing-related updates in the announcement include expanded language support for Name Recognition, which notifies users when their name is spoken, growing from English-only to more than 50 languages. Apple also says Made for iPhone hearing aids will pair and hand off between Apple devices more reliably, with an improved setup experience across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. A new developer API would allow users to add a human sign language interpreter to an ongoing FaceTime video call.
Apple notes that specific release dates were not provided and that several features are currently in beta.
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