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How to turn on subtitles by default (when available)? This would improve viewrate ;-)
Is it possible to turn on subtitles by default when a subtitle is available (tenant wide)?
Even if the video has the same language as the user profile setting.
This would improve the views since employees keep watching even if they are not able to turn on audio, or have bad hearing. We now need to provide an instruction with every video how to enable subtitles via the 'CC' icon.
I work for a client with +8000 employees and they are heavily using video's created by Stream on intranet and people who spend effort to create the subtitles are complaining they are not shown by default. We noticed that the internal marketing departement is frustrated by this and they are moving to other video editing products that embed the subtiltles in the video to work around this issue. As a Microsoft 365 consultant I'd like to help them to stick to the Microsoft products, please help! 😉
2 Replies
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Eddy_Veldboer - I'll pass your idea on to our playback team. We are thinking of some experiments with muted auto-play on embedded and inline playing videos across M365. I would imagine that if that experiment works out causing more people to keep watching a video, we'd need to add automatically turning on closed captions, so I'll pass on the feedback.
But if you could also add this idea into our Stream Idea voting forum it would help to see if others vote on it:
- Hi Marc Mroz, thanks for your kind reply and passing it on to the Playback team. I added the idea here as well as requested: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/84512e93-8d9d-ee11-92bd-0022484eec36.
