
Gemini Live on Android and iOS is getting a real-time captions characteristic. The characteristic will present stay captions of no matter Gemini says on the display screen. This characteristic will enable customers to have a two-way dialog with Gemini Live without having to hear its voice. It may be helpful when customers need to have a hands-free dialog with the chatbot however don’t need the AI to reply again verbally (if customers are outside or in a crowded location). Google has additionally offered choices to customise the scale of the font and the way the captions seem on the display screen.
Near the start of this month, a number of netizens claimed to have seen a brand new captions characteristic in Gemini Live. The Mountain View-based tech large was probably testing the characteristic with a small subset of customers. It seems that the corporate is now rolling it out to all customers globally. First noticed by 9to5Google, customers can now see a sq. icon on the top-right facet of the Gemini Live interface, which represents the characteristic.
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This is how real-time captions seem on Gemini Live
Gadgets 360 employees members have been ready to spot the characteristic on each Android and iOS gadgets. The characteristic works the identical on each working methods. Once Gemini Live has been turned on, customers can faucet the sq. icon to both allow or disable real-time captions. Alternatively, if the system’s quantity is turned all the best way down, Gemini Live mechanically means that customers activate captions. Earlier, Gemini Live wouldn’t open except the amount was at a stage audible to the consumer.
When turned on, real-time captions seem close to the underside of the display screen in two strains. It solely reveals what Gemini says in that second, and never the older dialog. To view the whole transcript, customers should first finish the session. Interestingly, captions additionally work when customers share their display screen or use the stay video characteristic by way of Gemini Live. While within the video mode, the caption seems on the high of the display screen.
On Android, Gemini customers even have the choice to customise captions. A brand new settings possibility is accessible as “Caption preferences.” Tapping on it opens a brand new web page the place customers can discover menu choices to change the language, textual content dimension, and caption model. The latter lets customers change how the captions seem on the display screen.
Apart from offering normal choices, akin to black textual content on white background and white textual content on black background, it additionally lets customers manually choose the font model, textual content color, background color, textual content and background opacity, and extra. We usually are not seeing any customisation choices on iOS.