Galaxy S20 Lineup Brings Android 10's Live Captions Feature

At its annual Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung revealed its partnership with Google to bring the 'Alive Captions' characteristic to the Samsung Galaxy S20 series. Notably, Google's SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer revealed that the Galaxy S20 series volition exist the first gear up of non-Pixel smartphones to gain support for Live Captions.

In case y'all're out of the loop, Google appear the Live Captions feature for Android 10 back at Google I/O 2019 last yr. The feature transcribes the audio portion in videos, podcasts, social media content, and more to show you relevant subtitles. Live Captions are available system-wide and hence, you are not express by the apps you use.

Google initially introduced Live Captions to the Pixel 4 and brought it to other Pixel devices later through its 'Pixel Characteristic Drop'. The software giant is finally expanding such a useful accessibility feature that will aid differently-abled people apply smartphones improve.

Despite beingness touted as one of the major features of Android 10 on its official landing folio, it is disappointing to see Google rolling out the characteristic in phases – bringing it to third-party phones at a time when we are looking forward to Android xi. Google, nonetheless, passes the blame to memory and storage limitations.

"It's not going to be on all devices. Information technology's only going to be on some select, college-end devices. This requires a lot of memory and space to run. In the beginning, it will be limited, merely we'll scroll it out over time," Brian Kemler, Android accessibility product manager told Venturebeat.

Now that Google has announced its partnership with Samsung, we can expect like announcements in the upcoming device launches this year. Eventually, the feature is expected to be brought to all uniform handsets. Then, stay tuned for more updates.