We detailed last week that Google would eventually replace Duo with Meet. As our report noted, the “pace of Duo development is slowing down,” but that a handful of features are still in the pipeline. One of those, video and voice duo title titles, was quietly announced today by Google.
After opening Google Duo voicemails, these title names will appear at the bottom of the screen just above the blue “Call” button. In addition to an accessibility feature, it is convenient as “in a noisy place”, and you can not put the phone to your ear.
These “Titles for Posts” were first tracked in development at the end of February. Behind the scenes audio content is “transcribed but not stored” by Google. The option to enable / disable will appear under “Message settings” in preferences.
How this feature was announced is quite interesting. Earlier today, @MadebyGoogle tweeted it out with the new Pixel 4a as an example. Android police have received confirmation from Google that this differs from ‘Live Caption’, which now works for transcribing live audio and video calls alongside all other playback devices.
As such, message texts will be available for non-Pixel Android phones, such as Google Duo for iOS. As of this evening, the feature has not been released yet.
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