Google Chrome May Soon Get Pixel 4's 'Live Captions' Feature

A new commit on the Chromium Gerrit seems to propose that Google Chrome might before long go the 'Live Captions' feature to automatically provide existent-fourth dimension captions for audio playing on the browser. Believed to have been originally spotted by Chrome Unboxed, the characteristic is apparently a part of the Speech on-Device API (SODA) and is expected to be available on Chrome Canary before being rolled out to the stable channel later on.

Google introduced the Live Captions feature on its Pixel phones with the launch of Android 10 last year. The feature, equally yous can tell from its name, allows a device or a media player software to display real-time captions for any audio content, including music, videos, and podcasts, irrespective of whether the content itself supports the feature natively. The real-time transcribing happens on-device instead of the deject, which not merely makes the process faster and seamless just also preserves user privacy.

Interestingly, Chrome developers are seemingly looking to develop more than only a live explanation organisation with the new feature, with a Google employee challenge that the ChromeOS team is besides looking at "other speech communication recognition scenarios they may desire to build in the future." Whatever be the case, given that information technology will be a native Chrome feature, information technology might come to all desktop platforms, including Chromebooks, Windows, Linux, and Mac, although, the exact details remain unclear equally of at present.

The Live Captions feature on Chrome is expected to work the aforementioned way it does on Pixel devices, making it an essential accessibility feature on Android not merely for people with hearing disabilities but also for folks who are trying to watch a video in an exceptionally noisy place. It will be interesting to run across when this feature will finally brand its manner to the public Chrome build, just it's unlikely to happen whatever fourth dimension soon, given that it is still in the very early stages of its development.