Big support. This would help hundreds (maybe more?) scratchers who are deaf or have no audio, giving them the chance to watch, or listen to more projects.

Support! I sometimes can't put my volume up too high, so it would be much easier!

I like this suggestion. I wonder if there could be a better location for the subtitles, though — putting it in the top part of the project player seems a little weird with all the other stuff that exists there (“Turbo Mode,” for instance), and I also don't know what would happen if the text to be spoken is longer than that page. It seems like a small space for subtitles — not to mention that subtitles are also almost universally placed at the bottom of the screen.

I feel like there should be a separate box under the project that only appears if you have subtitles enabled, and have the subtitles appear there. It would sort of look like a “write your comment” box, which could allow for easy scrolling and large chunks of text to be easily readable.

The only problem I can think of: what happens if more than one text-to-speech sentence is being said at a time?

Za-Chary wrote:

I feel like there should be a separate box under the project that only appears if you have subtitles enabled, and have the subtitles appear there. It would sort of look like a “write your comment” box, which could allow for easy scrolling and large chunks of text to be easily readable.

Interesting, I haven't thought about that. I'll try to make a mock-up.

Za-Chary wrote:

The only problem I can think of: what happens if more than one text-to-speech sentence is being said at a time?

Maybe they could be seperated using a line? I'll add that to the mock-up.

Support. Even though my hearing's fine I still use subtitles on YT. And it would also be a great way to include people with hearing problems.

mybearworld wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

I feel like there should be a separate box under the project that only appears if you have subtitles enabled, and have the subtitles appear there. It would sort of look like a “write your comment” box, which could allow for easy scrolling and large chunks of text to be easily readable.

Interesting, I haven't thought about that. I'll try to make a mock-up.

Za-Chary wrote:

The only problem I can think of: what happens if more than one text-to-speech sentence is being said at a time?

Maybe they could be seperated using a line? I'll add that to the mock-up.

One way that I know TV shows handle this is by having the subtitles to the side of the character speaking.

What would happen if people ran multiple TTS blocks at the same time? Would subtitles go nuts?

ScolderCreations wrote:

What would happen if people ran multiple TTS blocks at the same time? Would subtitles go nuts?

Za-Chary wrote:

what happens if more than one text-to-speech sentence is being said at a time?

Something like this maybe?

But what if someone made 300 clones, and made them all use TTS blocks? It seems like it'd push everything out of view.

I agree with @Za-Chary that subtitles should be at the bottom. That is where they are commonly found, and the word itself means below-titles since the sub- prefix means below or beneath. If more than one sprite has text to speech active at once, maybe there could be a label like you sometimes see in subtitles for TV shows or movies. For example:

Sprite1: Hello
Sprite2: Hi!

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ScolderCreations wrote:

But what if someone made 300 clones, and made them all use TTS blocks? It seems like it'd push everything out of view.

The only reason anybody would create that is for annoyance. Most games and animations will never use more than 2 sprites talking at a time in order to keep the speech understandable

-Accio- wrote:

I agree with @Za-Chary that subtitles should be at the bottom. That is where they are commonly found, and the word itself means below-titles since the sub- prefix means below or beneath. If more than one sprite has text to speech active at once, maybe there could be a label like you sometimes see in subtitles for TV shows or movies. For example:

Sprite1: Hello
Sprite2: Hi!

Agreed. But what about clones?

ScolderCreations wrote:

But what if someone made 300 clones, and made them all use TTS blocks? It seems like it'd push everything out of view.

How about after 4 rows it could have a ‘Load more’ button?

Support, just like all the constructive posts said. It’s useful for deaf people and such.

mitdk wrote:

-Accio- wrote:

I agree with @Za-Chary that subtitles should be at the bottom. That is where they are commonly found, and the word itself means below-titles since the sub- prefix means below or beneath. If more than one sprite has text to speech active at once, maybe there could be a label like you sometimes see in subtitles for TV shows or movies. For example:

Sprite1: Hello
Sprite2: Hi!

Agreed. But what about clones?

I don't think clones are that big of an issue. Like someone else said, if you have 300 clones talking, it would be unintelligible anyway, so the captions wouldn't be much help. Maybe it could be labelled as "Sprite1 - Clone :" based on the order of when the clones were created.

mitdk wrote:

ScolderCreations wrote:

But what if someone made 300 clones, and made them all use TTS blocks? It seems like it'd push everything out of view.

How about after 4 rows it could have a ‘Load more’ button?

That may not work, as the subtitles might go away quickly

Support.

I think the subtitles should be above the project stats, but below the project player.

Maybe below the player?

mybearworld wrote:

ScolderCreations wrote:

What would happen if people ran multiple TTS blocks at the same time? Would subtitles go nuts?

Za-Chary wrote:

what happens if more than one text-to-speech sentence is being said at a time?

Something like this maybe?

You should add this to the OP, a lot of people are repeatedly saying that it should be below the project player.