Posted by Michelle Tadmor-Ramanovich and Nadav Bar, Senior Software Engineers, Google Research, Tel-Aviv Captions for audio content are essential for the deaf and hard of hearing, but they benefit everyone. Watching video without audio is common — whether on the train, in meetings, in bed or when the kids are asleep — and studies have shown that subtitles can increase the duration of time that users spend watching a video by almost 40%. Yet caption support is fragmented across apps and even with...