Google Workspace Updates Bring More Accurate Voice Typing, Adds Automatic Live Captions for Slides

Google has began rolling out updates to its Docs and Slides app that provides enhancements and a brand new characteristic. The enhancements come within the type of a extra correct voice typing expertise, which Google hopes will make the instrument extra helpful for finish customers. Google Slides will get new computerized captions, which principally generates captions for the speaker in actual time. These updates to Google Docs and Slides have already begun rolling out to Workspace customers, customers with private Gmail accounts, in addition to legacy G Suite Fundamental and Enterprise prospects. It ought to be obtainable for a majority of those customers within the coming weeks.

Google has been offering the voice typing (or voice instructions) in its Docs and Slides apps for some time, however the brand new replace is alleged to enhance the expertise, making it extra helpful. Google in its blog post claims, that the brand new replace will assist scale back frequent transcription errors and likewise carry down situations of misplaced audio throughout transcription. Google mentions that characteristic works greatest on its Chrome browser, (be it Windows or macOS however claims to have added assist for “most major browsers” as effectively.

Google’s Slides will get a brand new computerized captions characteristic that may show a speaker’s phrases in a presentation in actual time. This characteristic is obtainable solely on units with Google’s Chrome browser put in and the language set to US English solely (for now). Customers must allow the automated captions by heading to More choices> Captions preferences after which toggle captions and opening and beginning the presentation. As soon as enabled, captions will start to look robotically because the presenter speaks. Google claims that Slides may even comprise robotically generated punctuation marks.

Each voice-enabled options would require both an inbuilt microphone or an exterior one. Google additionally recommends a quieter room or a spot with lowered background noise to minimise errors. Customers may even must tweak the mic’s sensitivity relying on how far they’re from it when presenting.

In the meantime, Google not too long ago announced that it is increasing entry to its Gmail end-to-end encryption characteristic. It brings an added layer of safety to mails and attachments. The characteristic was introduced in 2021 and has been in a beta testing state ever since. The most recent replace from Google claims to have expanded this beta characteristic’s entry to client-side encryption (CSE) in Gmail on the Internet, for choose prospects on Google Workspace Enterprise and Schooling plans.