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:



-CB

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  • Ankita Katdare
    Ankita Katdare
    This is ahh-mazing! Such releases go to say that the big corps are out to do good for them and for the world and not just running behind financial incentives. Watching the technologies such as these that make the world a better place to live always make my day.

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