Android’s Live Transcribe gets sound alerts and transcript saving

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/16/android-live-transcribe-sound-alerts/

Google is making Live Transcribe, its Android app for easy voice transcription, a lot more useful. Now, in addition to jotting down spoken words, it’ll also make you aware of things like a dog barking or audience clapping. It’ll give deaf and hard of hearing users even more context around their environment. Additionally, you’ll also be able to copy and save transcripts locally for up to three days. That’ll be useful when you’re juggling several conversations, or if you’re using the app to transcribe a class or meeting. And of course, it’ll give you a bit of time to move that text to a more permanent location for safe-keeping.

Android Live transcribe
The new features will hit Live Transcribe next month, and the app is available on 1.8 billion Android devices. Google is mainly leaning on its cloud-based machine learning and speech recognition tech for the app, so it can easily run on less powerful phones.

This is an area where Google is also competing heavily with Microsoft, which reached near-human accuracy with its speech recognition engine in 2016. Since then, it’s brought similar transcription capabilities within Teams, Skype, and Office apps. Given the growing importance of voice controlled assistants and UI accessibility, expect to see tech companies focusing even more on accurate speech recognition over the next few years.

Source: Google

via Engadget http://www.engadget.com

May 16, 2019 at 04:12PM

Here is the world’s first 3D printed hypercar

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/15/here-is-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-hypercar/

Transcript:

The world’s first 3D printed hypercar. This sleek looking vehicle could be a glimpse at the future of manufacturing. Blade is a four-wheel drive

hybrid

that was made using 3D printing. Divergent 3D designed the hypercar to showcase its printing capabilities. Blade is printed from Divergent made aluminum alloys and aerospace grade carbon fiber. Blade’s entire 3D printed chassis only weighs 102 lbs. Inside the Blade you’ll find an inline jet fighter seating position. We have no word yet on speed or pricing for Blade.

via Autoblog http://bit.ly/1afPJWx

May 15, 2019 at 06:45PM