Godot Closed Captions

This AddOn allows you to dynamically create closed captions and subtitles following BBC Guidance for your godot game.

How to install

1. Get it off the Godot Asset Store once it is available OR copy the addons/closed_captions into your addons folder
2. Enable the plugin in Project Settings.
3. Run git lfs install and git lfs pull to enjoy the demo scene.

Usage

1. Use CaptionedAudioStreamPlayer instead of regular AudioStreamPlayer for any sound sources that need captioning.
2. Use the SingleCaptionAudioStream to assign a single Caption to a noise or a brief speech clip.
3. Use an Array of Captions held by the MultiCaptionAudioStream Resource to caption dialouge or longer speach clips.
4. Add a CaptionDisplay and the CaptionServer will display captions of audible sound sources. Choose compact to get a les intrusive version of the component ideal for showing ambient noises during gameplay.
5. Use Audio Busses to filter what CaptionedAudioStreamPlayer will be shown on any CaptionDisplay.

Limitations

1. This is an Acessability Plugin. It is not meant to be pretty. When you try to apply your own theme to the subtitles, please make it as acessible as you can and allow users to switch back.
2. This Addon will sometimes not like things you are doing when they may collide with the guidelines. It will complain by showing node configuration warnings.
3. Right now, this is still in development and directional audio players are not yet supported.
4. I know: generating multi caption audio streams is a bit of a pain as of now. I will try to create a UI component for this, but that will take time.