Androids real-time captioning could be coming to Chrome

Android’s real-time captioning feature, Live Caption, could be coming to Google’s Chrome browser on computers and to Chrome OS, as spotted by TechDows (via 9to5Google). In the latest Canary release of Chrome, there’s a way to access a new “Live Caption” toggle in the browser’s accessibility settings.

However, in a few minutes of testing, I wasn’t able to get Live Captions to work at all. I switched the Live Caption toggle on, but whenever I navigated to YouTube or Twitch to see captions on a video, the browser immediately crashed. That’s not too surprising, though — Canary is Google’s updated-nightly version of Chrome intended only for developers, and the company even warns that the browser “can be unstable.”

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