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Solutions for reading subtitles? (self.Blind)
submitted by lhamil64
I'm legally blind (very nearsighted) and one major problem I've had is, if I'm watching a movie or TV and there are subtitles (like when they speak in another language), I can't read them. My current solution is to have whoever I'm with read them to me, but I'm wondering if there's a better way to have them read aloud?
The big problem I can see is that I doubt these types of subtitles are available as text, they're probably just part of the video, but maybe some kind of OCR could work?
The big problem I can see is that I doubt these types of subtitles are available as text, they're probably just part of the video, but maybe some kind of OCR could work?
rkingett 1 points 7y ago
If you are viewing stuff on Netflix with Flash and silverlight completely uninstalled NVDA will read the HTML 5 subtitles but you need to keep navigating there
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
That's right, they're not text. And as far as I know, the moving images would throw off any OCR. If the program hasn't been audio described, or the subtitles dubbed, you're kind of out of luck, I'm afraid.
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