Google is announcing two new features for Android phones today: Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier. They’re both designed as accessibility features to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Just yesterday during the Super Bowl, Google took out an ad to go over how Translate helps users around the world to better understand their surroundings and communicate. Today, Google is announcing ...

Next month, Live Transcribe will hear more than just speech. It will also register sound events, including a barking dog, a knock at the door, a passing vehicle, laughter, music, applause, and so on.

In an effort to make Android phones smarter for the deaf or hard of hearing, Google has released two new services today. This is not the first time a company is taking measures to provide such ...

Google is making Live Transcribe, its Android app for easy voice transcription, a lot more useful. Now, in addition to jotting down spoken words, it'll also make you aware of things like a dog barking ...

Google announced an accessibility-focused app for those with hearing disabilities called Live Transcribe back in February. As the name suggests, Live Transcribe helps users view a real-time ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. When Google released Live Transcribe this past February, it was a hugely important accessibility ...

If your hearing loss is so severe that even augmented headphones aren't enough to make sense of someone speaking to you, Live Transcribe may be very helpful. Once you launch the app, it attempts to ...

As smartphones have evolved, they've added plenty of accessibility functions designed to help those with various disabilities or impairments to navigate their phone and the world around them. It's ...

Google has unveiled Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier, two new Android apps designed to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Potentially, the former can aid those with hearing loss to ...

Google’s Live Transcribe app for Android is a fantastic tool for hearing-impaired people, using machine learning to quickly transcribe conversations and other sounds around you. The latest app update ...