Every internet video suddenly has text captions? Annoying and distracting.

[cbabe]

Is it something I did? How turn off? Thanks.

[tanyev]

1. If you're on a phone or tablet you may have accidentally touched the CC box

at the bottom of the video. Play a video and deliberately touch the CC box and see if they go away.

[cbabe]

6. The cc is at the top of the video. On/off doesn't change the captions.

[GPV]

2. Just started for me too. I think live caption got switched on.

[Shellback Squid]

3. I agree and the spelling can be atrocious too

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Spelling errors so blatant they're not even a matter of spelling anymore. It's the wrong damned words !

Apparently, YouTube got the cheapest voice-recognition package it could buy.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. It's YouTube. Click on the little 'CC' icon to toggle them on / off. nt

[cbabe]

7. CC on/off but captions remain.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Strange, it works for me. I'm using outdated Firefox on outdated OSX (15.7).

What platform are you using ?

It may be just that the controls are implemented differently. The little settings icon (a gear) can also be used to make CC/subtitle choices.

[cbabe]

9. There seems to be two captions: one in bold that I can turn off. Another is smaller white font that remains. Wonder if

site creator embedded second smaller caption.

[tanyev]

10. That's very possible.

[msongs]

11. not cc, it's text as part of video. often dead center over speaking person, can't be deleted. how to get around

It...I drag the browser windows down to hide text but that eliminates half the video n only works on desktop. Mostly just move on

[cbabe]

12. Thanks. Something new I can do without. Wonder why it was thought a good idea.