Google released Hangout Captions for hearing-imparied

With Googl'e new release of hangout captions, people who are deaf or Hearing-impaired, Hangouts group video chats can now follow the conversation through live captions.

Google’s Technical Program Manager for Accessibility Engineering Naomi Black, expresed that users can either use in live captions from a professional transcription service, or simply do it themselves and type the spoken word into a text box within the Hangout app.

Black illustrated the functionality with the following video:



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