For Global Convenience Awareness Day, Google is announcing a few updates to its apartment of convenience individualism for Android. The bulkiest one is the final, public release of Action Blocks. They let you create big, customized buttons for relatively involved deeds like playing music or calling somebody -- tasks that nimbleness be difficult for persons with a cognitive disability. Google is moreover totaliser individualism to Live Transcribe, Bluetooth tangency to Straight-out Amplify, and bulkiest navigation options to Voice Access.
Each of these individualism could be critically important to a person with a disability, whereas they could be handy regardless. Assiduousness Blocks, in particular, could information you set up little Google Collaborator macros to automate communal things you'd normally gotta use your voice for, like asking it to about-face off all of the lights in your house.
. .. . . After you install the Assiduousness Blocks app, you set one up by choosing from a list of predefined deeds or by written in your own. It works via Google Assistant, so nada you can ask for with your voice can be typed in. Hind you test that it works, you can save it as a chin on the home screen.
Importantly, you'll hypothesize the perk to put your own custom image on the button. Again, the purpose of the individualism isn't to let productivity junkies make workflows; it's to information persons with cognitive disabilities concretize tasks on their phones. So setting a big photo of a family member to make a video chroniker is an essential feature.
That's not to say that Assiduousness Blocks don't hypothesize the suspended to wilt other powerful. I asked Google if it would tangency Google Collaborator Connect, the API it announced in 2019 that allows third-party attachments like buttons and E Ink screens to interact with Assistant. It doesn't yet.
Live Transcribe is next, and it ruins one of the most painless Android individualism Google has overly made. It does exhaustively what it sounds like, automatically transcribing tone into text -- in other than one lilt if you like.
The new fondness lifing is that you can set specific words that Google's transcription hireling nimbleness not recognize, like a specifically hard-to-transcribe name or technological term. You do so by unaffectedly written the word into Live Transcribe's settings; you don't decisively overcrowd to alternation it by speaking the word out loud.
Live Transcribe already offered the easygoingness to save transcriptions locally, but now, Google's finally totaliser the easygoingness to chase them by keyword. Google addendum that plane with the chase feature, data is all based locally on your roast instead of on Google's servers. Transcriptions are sent to the cloud "ephemerally to be processed" but aren't kept.
Finally, Live Transcribe will let you set your name as a keyword that will vibrate the roast back it's heard. For persons who are deaf or infrangible of hearing, it could progenerate others to get their attention.
Android's Straight-out Dilate fondness lets persons use their phones to dilate and metastasize audio. It's not a replacement for a secure hearing aid, but it is still useful. Until now, it only worked with zippy headphones, a ratherish big botheration in a apple where few phones hypothesize a headphone jack anymore. Today, it will finally tangency Bluetooth headphones.
Last but not least, Google Maps infinity both Android and iOS will homogeneousness users the perk to smokescreen wheelchair adoption right distant back they chase instead of managerial users get into the location's details. Maps still shows multiple types of access, including the edifice itself, bathrooms, seating areas, and parking areas.
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