Google announced the auto-audio subtitling offline working magical Live Caption feature at Io19 and released it with Android 10 on Pixel 4 and 4XL. Google then made it available to the Pixel 3, 3 XL, and Pixel 3a devices in December last year with the first “Feature Drop”. It was unclear when Google will release it for Pixel 2 and 2XL as people speculated it won’t be as Google didn’t announce the frequency of the Feature Drop.
Finally after a month of speculations and many arrows fired in the dark, it appears the company is now releasing Live Caption to the Pixel 2 series. Reddit user yashredy recently made this discovery, with a few others chiming in to confirm. This latest addition means Live Caption is now available on Pixel 4, Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 2 and all their XL phones. I also got Live Caption after updating the Device Personalisation Services.
Many Redditors and myself have confirmed that version 2.8.286596096 of the app adds this auto-caption feature.
Though exclusive to Pixel 4 at launch, Google had announced in October that the Pixel 3 phones will be getting Live Caption in December.Live Caption was simply not the most sought after Android 10 feature by Pixel users, but is surely a valuable accessibility tool for people who need it.It adds locally-generated(offline working) subtitles to all videos, and podcasts on the screen, with music in the pipeline, which could be of great help for those who are hearing impaired or, as Google advertises, help for people watching videos on heavily crowded areas, because we all do that all the time.
The December security update was part of Google’s first feature drop update for Pixel phones. A month later, Pixel 2 phones are now getting it with the latest version of the Device Personalization Services app.
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