Captions for videos

Since I am almost deaf, in order to play any video in Windfows 7 (e.g., news how-to, etc.), I need to have them captioned. If this is possible, how do I go about getting caqptions turned ON?
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Hello jenniwren, welcome to the HP Forums.
I see that you're looking for assistance with turning on captions/subtitles for videos. I will try to assist you with this.
Just so that you're aware, enabling captions or subtitles is specific to the program being used. There's no master command for the entire computer and there may be some web players that don't offer the feature.
Show captions or subtitles in Windows Media Player - Windows media player.
Turn captions on and off - This ones for you YouTube.
How do I enable subtitles, captions and alternate audio on my device? - This is for Netflix.
I've provided the above links to show what I mean by application based, also these are popular tools for movies ect.
I hope this is able to help you.
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
I worked on behalf of HP.

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