The original Android 10 exclusive has made its way to PC. “Automatic Subtitles” available in Google Chrome

Google has finally fully implemented the expected by many function Live Caption (Automatic subtitles) in the proprietary Chrome browser.

The original Android 10 exclusive has made its way to PC.

Google originally introduced the Live Caption feature along with the Android 10 operating system in 2019. Automatic subtitles live up to their name – they automatically convert speech in a video into text. The main highlight is that it is available in a wide variety of applications, from YouTube to instant messengers, and without the need for an Internet connection. For a long time it was “exclusive” for select smartphone models.

Last year, the feature began to be tested in test builds of Chrome, and now it has become available in the stable version of Chrome 88. “Automatic captions” must be activated using the appropriate one on the page with test functions chrome: // flags / # enable-accessibility-live-caption …

The original Android 10 exclusive has made its way to PC.

After activating the function in the browser, you need to launch any video and in the Media Hub panel to manage all media content, a switch will appear to enable automatic subtitles.

As the subject resource AndroidPolice confirmed, “Automatic Subtitles” is quite functional in the browser for Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, but in Chrome OS the function is a little more difficult to enable. It doesn’t work in Chrome for Android and Linux yet.

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