As someone who has spent too much time fixing documents for screen readers, this makes me happy.

I would appreciate it even as someone who's not hard of hearing (yet). I prefer subtitles at all times when possible.

Realtime speech to text has been around for a while now, like nearly 2 decades, but it's gone from doctors using it..and wanting to murder those of us who supported it, tooooo holy crap that didn't take a few days to learn your voice and it's figured it out locally and quickly. I'm surprised though that it's not a standard feature in games now, as the tech is pretty basic at this point and requires very little resources to do it's thing.

So far, I still wasn't enamored with the auto-generated subtitles for that, because it'll occasionally choose the wrong word, which is then worse for me than just hearing the unclear speech myself.

But yeah, we'll have to see how technology advances. I assume, LLMs can guess the correct word based on sentence structure, so there's probably still a good bit of room for improvement.
Colleagues have also been working on some speech-controlled UI and they do report huge differences in how different models can deal with bad audio quality, so that seems like things are going forward, too.

Yeah, I've seen that from YouTube's auto-generated subtitles. If it's having a really hard time understanding someone I also prefer having it off, but I'm okay with a few mistakes here and there.

Yeah, I also think it might as well be a standard feature these days, but honestly I have no idea how often in-game voice chat is used. Personally, if I'm playing anything online it's only with my friends and we'd be on a Discord voice call. So the game really isn't in the loop there. But obviously this isn't the case described here.

What a neat looking game that I wound up never hearing about. Just added it to the ol steam wishlist. G2 is now in early access as of a few days ago, but I guess it's optimized terribly at the moment.

It's great that YouTube offers subtitles and I believe they're better than no subtitles in most cases, but man do they suck in many cases.

Is this guerrilla advertising for Grounded 2 that was just released?

Obsidian being owned by microsoft just breaks my fucking heart.

I wouldn't have known what game they're talking about unless I read your comment (it was first).

So maybe? Unless you are guerilla advertising for the Grounded 2?

When I posted, someone else had already identified it and I looked it up to discover the recent release.

But, I could definitely be a guerilla..

Well if you're going to get eaten by a giant spider, I guess that's the best way for it to happen.

This is so wholesome; I love accessibility features.
It's usually difficult for me to focus on dialogues in games without subtitles; seeing a chat transcription would be SO helpful to me even though I am not deaf. It should be a standard feature in modern gaming.

For the last several years, for some reason I started experiencing motion sickness, which extends to videogames too. I was so happy when I played World of Warcraft recently, and I noticed that they added anti-motion sickness features for people like me 🥹