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LIVE CAPTIONING AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
YouTube has oered automatic captioning services since 2009, but the company has made available a real-time captioning service for its live streamers. In English only, the service will subtitle live-streamed content as it is playing. YouTube’s LASR speech recognition technology powers the
service, which YouTube claims keeps error rates to industry standards. The company has also added live chat replay, so that chats taking place during a live stream can be viewed in sync with video playback, as well as automatic location tags for live streamers.
GOOGLE BETS ON AR
Google has discontinued its Tango augmented reality platform in favour of its ARCore oering. ARCore 1.0 was oicially launched at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Tango was developed by Google’s Advanced Technology and Products team to bring AR to mobile devices, however it relied on specific hardware to be implemented. The ARCore platform, first announced last summer, is lighter weight than Tango, but can deployed on most Android devices. ARCore 1.0 allows augmented reality content developers to build on three key technologies:
■ Motion tracking – allows the phone to understand and track its position relative to the world. ■ Environmental understanding – allows the phone to detect the size and location of flat horizontal surfaces like the ground or a coee table. ■ Light estimation – allows the phone to estimate the environment’s current lighting conditions. Google has also announced the rollout of Google Lens on Android devices. Lens is a visual recognition technology that uses AI to identify objects and landmarks. A rollout for iOS devices is also planned.
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