Google will improve Live Transcribe's automatic transcription to work offline

Google Artificial Intelligence plans to improve an application that is really useful on Android: Instant Transcription or Live Transcribe. This app, which allows to convert everything that sounds around (including noises) into words , will offer the transcription offline. The option is ready to reach the app, according to its code.

The accessibility is one of the environments where Google focuses most on Android. With the latest versions, said accessibility has grown in functions with the addition of to improve its possibilities thanks to Artificial Intelligence . That’s where speech recognition and transcription come in: the automatic subtitles are a good example. And Live Transcribe, an app that makes life easier for people with visual difficulties. It is a small wonder made of software.

Voice-to-text transcription without Internet

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You Theming Material in Instant Transcript 4.6

Up to now Instant Transcription used the Internet connection to perform its magic: Google captures the surrounding audio, uploads it to its servers to recognize words and sounds and sends the text to the phone in a process that is done live and instantly . Since a connection error is enough to ruin the experience, Live Transcribe is preparing its offline operation.

As discovered in XDA Developers after analyzing with a magnifying glass the latest Live Transcribe APK ( version 4.6 ), Google has introduced the first trace in the app that indicates its future offline operation. Specifically, Live Transcribe will offer the option to download the language packs in order to perform the speech recognition, analysis and transcription processes in a local, without sending the data to Google’s servers .

Live Transcribe will allow the download of the language pack just like other Google applications do, such as the translator. And not only will it transcribe the words that are spoken in the environment, the application will continue to recognize the sounds in order to warn the user, also offline . For example, Live Transcribe will alert if the doorbell rings, if a dog is barking, or if an object has fallen to the ground.

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Instant Transcript noise alerts

In addition to offline operation, Live Transcribe includes Material You in the application design: it adapts to the wallpaper as long as the mobile has Android 12 . Automatic customization is now available, offline mode not yet . Maybe Google will wait for the Pixel 6 event to activate it .

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Via | XDA Developers

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