For the hundreds of millions of people around the world with mild or severe hearing loss, good news: Sound Amplifier, an app that taps AI to augment sounds and cut down on noise, is now available in ...

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Google wants to make Android phones powerful tools for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. On Monday, the search giant released two new services, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier, aimed at ...

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Google on Thursday rolled out a series of updates to Maps, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier aimed at improving user accessibility. The company also launched an app called Action Blocks that lets ...

The pair of apps will make audio more accessible, with Live Transcribe turning real-world speech into captions in real-time, and Sound Amplifier distinguishing sounds using headphones. Google has ...