In an exciting development for accessibility, Google Chrome has added built-in support for "live-captions" - which means that the browser will automatically display closed-captions for audio when it is playing in the browser.
✅How to set up Google Chrome live captions on your desktop
🎧 After you have enabled "live captions", navigate to any episode in the web-player (for example,this one), and when you start to play it you should see a box with captions at the bottom, like this:
If you have any trouble getting this working, please feel free to email us at:kidslisten@pastimeapp.com
Note: Not all episodes have transcripts, but they're working hard on it! Scroll to the bottom of an episode on butwhykids.org and look for the "Read Full Transcript" link.
For example: How Do We Fall Asleep?
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