Last updated on 6 February 2019
When technology puts itself at the service of disability, it can achieve great things. This is the case here with an Android app being developed by the giant Google. Live Transcribe, as its English name suggests, makes it possible to transcribe a conversation in real time on the screen of a smartphone or tablet.
Ultra practical for a deaf or hard of hearing person who will be able to use it to communicate on a daily basis. For shopping, to join a conversation with friends or to attend a class or conference, Live Transcribe promises to write in real time on the screen of the phone or the app is installed to exchange them captured by the microphone of the device.
Here, Google is reinvesting the advances in speech recognition used for its connected devices to make life easier for thousands of people.
By launching the application on your Android device and allowing the use of the built-in microphone, Live Transcribe will display on the screen a kind of prompter where all the phrases captured by the microphone will be written. All in real time. More than 70 languages are supported. Sentences can be displayed in terms of character size and theme (shadow, light, etc.). No unnecessary frills, in this first version of the application everything is simple and practical.
On the privacy side, which is always a good question to ask when it comes to big companies like Google, Google says that privacy and data privacy will be respected. Google claims that it will not use or store trade data, sound or text transcript.
The app is still in development and will be available gradually on the Google Play Store. You can register here on a waiting list to be notified of its availability. The app is currently only available on Android. It is and will be free.
Link: Live Transcribe
English
That's where the app is available in the Google Store. I started testing in French. The result is very correct , even for punctuation. we look for the ‘Export text’ section because it is an interesting tool for generating a transcription of a podcats or a video (better than Google Docs in any case).