So the US search engine giant, Google released the real-time captioning for Android alongside the launch of their newest software,the Android 10. The fracture became known as the Live Captions and it turned out to be very useful for those people who had auditory disabilities.The feature is able to create captions for all audio and video playback on the phone in real-time without the need of an internet connection.
The said feature will now be available on Google Chrome soon as it was spotted by Techdowns in the latest version of the browser’s Canary build. Quite like it operates on the Android platform, the feature on the Chrome setup will also detect speech in any media being played in the browser and in turn will create real-time captions for the user’s ease and accessibility.
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In addition, the new feature will have to be enabled manually from the browser’s accessibility settings. After it’s been activated,the device will automatically start creating captions for media without any special third party support. Chrome will also link them to Windows 10 Captions so people can customize how the captions appear in the browser.Finally,Live Captions for Chrome will also be available on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and Linux. Considering how the feature has already arrived in the Canary build, a beta version and a stable update is well on its way and we expect users to get the stable update in the coming few weeks or so. When it does, we shall report our users on the update.
