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.
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