Live Transcribe

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Live Transcribe
Developer(s) Google Research
Initial releaseFebruary 4, 2019;6 years ago (2019-02-04)
Stable release
6.6.602963593 [1] / February 5, 2024;15 months ago (2024-02-05)
Operating system Android
Size 4 MB
Type Accessibility
License Apache License 2.0 [2]
Website www.android.com/accessibility/live-transcribe/

Live Transcribe is a mobile app for real-time captioning, developed by Google for the Android operating system. Development on the application began in partnership with Gallaudet University. [3] It was publicly released as a free beta for Android 5.0+ on the Google Play Store on February 4, 2019. [4] As of early 2023 it had been downloaded over 500 million times. [5]

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Development

Researchers Dimitri Kanevsky, Sagar Savla and Chet Gnegy at Google developed the app in collaboration with researchers at Gallaudet University, [6] an American university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The app uses machine learning to generate captions, [7] similar to YouTube's auto-generated captions. [8]

In August 2019, Google made Live Transcribe an open-source project. [9] [10]

Features

The app uses speech recognition to generate live captions in over 80 languages with varying accuracy. [11] [12] The app, which requires connection to the Internet to function, is available to download on the Google Play Store.

A later update to the app [13] displayed information on sounds such as clapping, laughter, music, applause, and whistling. [14]

In May 2020, the app started supporting transcription in Albanian, Burmese, Estonian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Punjabi, and Uzbek, supporting 70 languages. [15]

In March 2022, the app was updated with support to transcribe offline, without Internet connection, so long as the appropriate language pack has been installed. [16] The offline mode is only available for devices with 6GB of RAM and certain Google Pixel devices.

References

  1. ↑ "Live Transcribe & Notification APKs". APKMirror. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
  2. ↑ "License". google/live-transcribe-speech-engine repository. Google – via GitHub.
  3. ↑ "Meet the Deaf Developer Behind Google's Live Transcribe App". 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  4. ↑ Dieter Bohn (2019-02-04). "Google Live Transcribe could be a big help for people who are deaf or hard of hearing". TheVerge.
  5. ↑ "Live Transcribe & Notification". Google Play. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  6. ↑ "As ADA turns 30, tech is just getting started helping people with disabilities". 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  7. ↑ "Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  8. ↑ "Google's Sagar Savla Built An App That Can Help 466 Million People Who Can't Hear Communicate". Times of India. 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  9. ↑ "Google open-sources Live Transcribe's speech engine". VentureBeat. 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  10. ↑ "Bringing Live Transcribe's Speech Engine to Everyone". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  11. ↑ Giridharan, Vignesh (2019-07-15). "Here's how Google is putting AI to work in healthcare, environmental conservation, agriculture and more". digit.in. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  12. ↑ Live Transcribe Team (2020-12-08). "Best Practices for Live Transcribe". Medium. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  13. ↑ Li, Abner (2019-06-03). "Live Transcribe update will recognize laughing, applause". 9to5Google . Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  14. ↑ Li, Abner (2019-05-16). "Android Live Transcribe can detect farts, but it won't (for now)". 9to5Google . Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  15. ↑ "Accessibility updates that help tech work for everyone". Google. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  16. ↑ "Google adds an offline mode to the Live Transcribe app". XDA. 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
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