As smartphones have evolved, they've added plenty of accessibility functions designed to help those with various disabilities or impairments to navigate their phone and the world around them. It's ...

It lets me follow along more easily.

A few years ago, I downloaded Google's Live Transcribe app while searching for the best free transcription app that I could rely on even when I was offline. I just wanted something simple, basically ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

If your hearing loss is so severe that even augmented headphones aren't enough to make sense of someone speaking to you, Live Transcribe may be very helpful. Once you launch the app, it attempts to ...

With the launch of the Pixel 9 series, Google has a handful of accessibility updates and features, including an update to the Magnifier app. Introduced last year, Magnifier (Pixel 5+) now lets you ...

Google’s forthcoming Recorder app promises to both record and transcribe audio into text within the Google Pixel 4. But you don’t have to wait—you can check out Google’s underlying speech-to-text ...