Comment by Zhenya
4 years ago
1) press volume down
2) you should see the volume dialog with a box with squiggly lines in it at the bottom of the volume slider
3) press that to turn it off
4 years ago
1) press volume down
2) you should see the volume dialog with a box with squiggly lines in it at the bottom of the volume slider
3) press that to turn it off
Thanks to both of you.
Can you see how this feature might be useful for those with hearing problems? everything is not malicious..:
I'm not saying it is malicious. But it has a high potential for misuse.
Let's say this starts getting normal, because we've had it for 5-8 years. AI accelerators are in every device, making this functionality a non-issue in terms of battery life. It's then in TVs, in cars, in phones. It's just a toggle to turn it off, but it's software, it can turn itself on without notifying the user. Google won't do this.
How long has it taken Android to start notifying users that an app is accessing or has accessed the microphone? Notifying the user hasn't appeared to be some high priority thing.
The closed caption button in the virtual volume slider, I've played with it a couple of days ago. I was wondering what it was. Toggling it multiple times did nothing, no notification, nothing. I just got a bit annoyed that the state of the image when the diagonal line is missing appeared to leave some marks in the horizontal lines. Now I know that these are supposed to represent sentences. I thought it was just a buggy design and had no idea what this toggle was there for. Long-pressing it did not popup a tooltip indicating its function. I must have explicitly turned on that feature in the settings without remembering. But this is not the problem.
The thing that is concerning is simply that it is there, in common hardware, that there is a proof of concept that these devices are perfectly capable of doing this offline. Hardware manufacturers which tweak the UI can very well just pretend that the button is toggled off and not show the overlay, while the device is transcribing. Possibly only do it after a short FFT analysis has shown that there may be interesting content going on, like speech which doesn't come from a TV, but from a discussion among people. No detectable data stream will be noticeable over the WiFi connection.
It is in fact awesome that people with hearing problems have this solution at their disposal. I'd maybe even like to have it transcribe my phone conversations and store the text in the contacts app.