A screenshot of Google Live Transcribe running on a Samsung Galaxy S20 | |
Developer(s) | Google Research |
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Initial release | February 4, 2019; 3 years ago (2019-02-04) |
Stable release | 4.2.350293983
/ January 19, 2021; 15 months ago (2021-01-19) |
Operating system | Android |
Size | 4mb |
Type | Accessibility |
License | Open Source |
Website | www |
Live Transcribe is a smartphone application to get realtime captions developed by Google for the Android operating system. Development on the application began in partnership with Gallaudet University.[1] It was publicly released as a free beta for Android 5.0+ on the Google Play Store on February 4, 2019.[2] As of early 2021, it has garnered 100 million installs worldwide.[3]
Researchers Dimitri Kanevsky, Sagar Savla and Chet Gnegy at Google developed the app in collaboration with researchers at Gallaudet University,[4] an American university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The app uses machine learning to generate captions,[5] similar to YouTube's auto-generated captions.[6]
The app uses automatic speech recognition to generate live captions in over 80 languages with varying accuracy.[7][8] The app requires internet to function and is available to download on the Google Play Store.
A later update to the app[9] added support for non-speech sound events such as clapping, laughter, music, applause, whistling and more.[10]
In August 2019, Google open-sourced the code behind Live Transcribe.[11][12]
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