Voice tweets have been controversial since their launch. - Clément Follain / 20 Minutes

A few days ago, Twitter made its little revolution by offering some of its users to record voice tweets. A feature that soon received criticism. According to some, it will become difficult for Twitter to moderate oral remarks. Others fear the arrival of “deepfake audio”, which is voice theft. But the most immediate problem concerns accessibility, says Numerama . In the absence of software transcribing what is said in words, these audio tweets indeed put aside people with deafness problems.

Reactions have multiplied on the social network with the hashtag "# a11y" (for accessibility in English, which is abbreviated as a11y). Twitter was therefore forced to react. “Clearly, we have a lot of work to do to make Twitter more inclusive for people with disabilities. I will advocate that "a11y" be part of our design from the start of all projects, "wrote Dantley Davis, design manager at Twitter.

Audio tweets will be better identified

New application updates will improve the function of voice tweets for everyone. They will be better identified in the messages. In the future, the social network intends to make available an automatic transcription tool which will allow the audio message to be read in writing. Thus, the audio tweets will be transformed into normal tweets.

For now, this audio tweets feature is only available for the iOS application and for a handful of users. And the social network has not yet indicated when Android users or web surfers will be able to access it.

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