Unlike most users, I have never had any particular complaints about Google Chrome. The problem of overloading the processor and memory when launching a large number of tabs bypassed me, simply because I hate clutter and always keep no more than three open, and I'm not afraid of surveillance from Google. In the end, it only makes me feel better. So, at least, I can count on relevant ads, and not just what. However, there is at least one feature that I would love to see in Chrome as soon as possible.
Live Capture is a very cool feature coming to Chrome
Last year, Google introduced the flagship Pixel 4 and named Live Capture support as one of the key innovations of the device. Its work is provided by speech recognition algorithms – the same ones that underlie Google Assistant and dictation, but at the same time they translate into text not the user's own speech, but what happens on the device screen. That is, in fact, these are such subtitles at maximum speed, which will be with you always and everywhere, no matter what you are watching.
What is Live Capture
Speech-to-text translation is what we all need
The key advantage of Live Capture, apart from of course the amazing speech recognition, is its absolute versatility. This technology can translate voice to text from any video on the Internet, and even those that you recorded on your smartphone camera yourself. You just need to start the video, turn on Live Capture and enjoy the finished subtitles in your native language. But, in my opinion, this function does not fully reveal its potential on a smartphone, and therefore should appear in Google Chrome. I wonder why?
Let's take YouTube as an example. Despite the fact that this video site has an automatic subtitle creation function, the result often leaves much to be desired. The service's own algorithms most often misrecognize words, confusing them with others, react poorly to speech pauses, giving out something absolutely unimaginable. Therefore, to understand something by such subtitles turns out to be a completely non-trivial task. But if Google can build the same algorithms that are responsible for the operation of Live Capture in their services, other companies and services do not.
Video subtitles
YouTube subtitle algorithms are terrible. Live Capture will solve this problem
Some video platforms like Netflix and Amediateka have subtitles for almost every movie and series. However, others like Ivi, Premier and others do not have anything like that. Perhaps someone will say that watching Russian films with Russian subtitles is still a perversion, and I completely agree with them. But there are a lot of scenarios when subtitles can be important – from the banal impossibility to turn on the sound and watch video with sound to learning a foreign language. After all, Live Capture recognizes not only Russian text, but also English, and Spanish, and Chinese, and whatever you need there.
Is it possible to integrate Live Capture with Google Chrome? Of course, it is possible, and Google has already proved this to us more than once, combining the functionality of its various services with each other. As a result, Google Assistant has a built-in 'Google Translate', Google Maps has a widget to control playback from Google Play Music, and Gmail has the ability to call Meet. Therefore, I think it will not be difficult for the developers of the search giant to add a few additional lines of code to the browser code and debug.