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Chrome can now live caption audio and video

chrisweekly 6y ago
Fug. This kind of thing is why I keep waffling on making FF my primary browser.
- lapitopi 6y ago
  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.
- fy20 6y ago
  The built in translation on Chrome is what keeps pulling me back :-/
- dybber 6y ago
  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.
  - junipertea 6y ago
    I would just see it as trying to make a best product and using their expertise to achieve it.
  - chii 6y ago
    > 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.
    - diffeomorphism 6y ago
      You mean bad.
- gerash 6y ago
  What do you use live captions for?
  - rini17 6y ago
    I am hard of hearing and need captions on everything.
unicornporn 6y ago
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?
- jobigoud 6y ago
  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.
  - unicornporn 6y ago
    Interesting.
smusamashah 6y ago
Can we extract those live captions?

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

lapitopi 6y ago
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.
fy20 6y ago
The built in translation on Chrome is what keeps pulling me back :-/
dybber 6y ago
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.
- junipertea 6y ago
  I would just see it as trying to make a best product and using their expertise to achieve it.
- chii 6y ago
  > 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.
  - diffeomorphism 6y ago
    You mean bad.
gerash 6y ago
What do you use live captions for?
- rini17 6y ago
  I am hard of hearing and need captions on everything.

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?

jobigoud 6y ago
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.
- unicornporn 6y ago
  Interesting.

smusamashah 6y ago

Can we extract those live captions?