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Chrome can now live caption audio and video

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Would be interesting to see a list of supported languages.

Still, in 2021, YouTube doesn't autocaption Swedish. So I guess there's not much hope for my native tongue here either.

Also, can you download these generated subtitles on Chrome for desktop? And, will this be in Chromium too? Speech recognition files are downloaded and run offline. But are they be a proprietary addition only to Chrome users?

Youtube also has very different quality within the same language. For Brazilian Portuguese (easier variant to parse) recent videos are decent (if it's normal speech, not songs or fiction) but I found some from 2017 where it was garbage.

Interesting.

Fug. This kind of thing is why I keep waffling on making FF my primary browser.

This is exactly why I hate it. They can and will lock people into their ecosystem. I see Firefox only losing to features like this. I love the present tab feature and that too is available only on Chrome. Now I’ve starting using chrome for Meet, but FF everywhere else.

The built in translation on Chrome is what keeps pulling me back :-/

That’s the purpose: Make it increasingly hard for competitors to stay in the competition and to ensure Google stays in this dominant position. You also can’t use your Chromecast with Firefox. Another way to keep people locked in.

Same strategy Microsoft used many years ago e.g. with Office, adding more and more features in such a pace that it becomes very hard for anyone to create a competitor with the same functionality. They are still capitalizing on that.

I use Firefox for everything, works well for my purposes.

I would just see it as trying to make a best product and using their expertise to achieve it.

> adding more and more features in such a pace that it becomes very hard for anyone to create a competitor with the same functionality

so that's good for the consumer then.

You mean bad.

What do you use live captions for?

I am hard of hearing and need captions on everything.

Can we extract those live captions?

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