Category: live transcribe

Google releases Action Blocks to aid people with cognitive disabilities

[ad_1] Google’s flurry of accessibility updates goes well beyond improvements to Maps. It’s releasing its long-promised Action Blocks feature (above) as an Android app, greatly simplifying Google Assistant tasks for people with cognitive and motion disabilities. You can call a family member, turn the lights off or take a selfie with a single tap on […]

Android’s Live Transcribe gets sound alerts and transcript saving

[ad_1] 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 […]