Live captions

Jin9k

Hi community.
I just bought a pixel 6A just graphene, but I'm wondering if some pixel features are still present?

Mainly live captions? That should work offline

the_blackwell_ninja

As far as I know, this feature requires systems from normal android devices that the devs don't want to include for security reasons.

That said, I would like to express that I am very interested in having working captions somehow. Due to my hearing loss, I am unable to understand my Podcasts without them, and this is really the only thing keeping me from using GrapheneOS.

N3rdTek

the_blackwell_ninja

the_blackwell_ninja As far as I know, this feature requires systems from normal android devices that the devs don't want to include for security reasons.

How exactly is this a security issue when it’s baked into every modern Android?

So my takeaway is the GoS dev team doesn’t feel their OS should be used by the Deaf or hard of hearing? Like they chose their disability???

Rather concerning and disappointing there’s no security/privacy centered OS for them except stock pixel.
Or even those wanting to develop a foss version since the framework has been gutted

matchboxbananasynergy

N3rdTek Why are you taking a response from a random community member who posted something a while ago and extrapolating the project's official stance on accessibility?

You can start by reading https://grapheneos.org/usage#accessibility as a start.

I would recommend reading the following thread by the official project account regarding accessibility as well:

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1596245397596692480

Making accusations that the project doesn't care about accessibility or people with disabilities when we work with and accept contributions from people with such disabilities who are helping improve things like Talkback for GrapheneOS is disappointing. Please feel free to ask questions instead of jumping to conclusions in the future, as it can facilitate much more productive discussion.

Arlas

Hello, I am interested in live captions too. I am hard handicapped of hearing and using stock android in Google Pixel for this. I got a old google pixel 6 pro where I use Graphene OS but I am not happy with it. I would like to use Graphene OS as my primary system.
Is there a way to do some contributions to implement it in Graphene OS with the app store? Like Android Auto at least...

missing-root

The Twitter post:

Google publishes the source code for their TalkBack screen reader. GrapheneOS maintains a fork of it and includes it in GrapheneOS with the help of a blind GrapheneOS user who works on their own more elaborate fork. Eventually, we'd like to include more or all of their changes.

It is more the problem that Google doesnt care about people, and bakes things like "noise detection", captions and more into proprietary modules, or even cloud services. I am sure GrapheneOS devs do what they can, but AOSP has no TTS engine and many more limitations.

Arlas

Maybe we can get a workaround with this?
https://github.com/botbahlul/VOSK-Powered-Live-Subtitle-V3

Arlas

I mean there is No need to Copy Google. Vosk Speech Recognition can be used offline and is for free. Even projects like KDEnlive using that. If GrapheneOS could integrate this in the system then it can advertise to be nice to people with handicap and privacy focussed.