Google chrome to bring in Live Translate feature, making it accessible for people with disabilities

Google Chrome being one of the best browsers, it’s continuously adding new features that are most likely improving users experiences with the browser. A significant part of Chrome is its accessibility features, which include live captioning along with page navigation with a text cursor. For this upcoming update, Google is already testing another significant feature: real-time machine translation of live captions in Chrome’s desktop version. This feature is already being enjoyed by Pixel users.

Google Chrome’s live translation feature

In the current version of the browser, accessibility options on Chrome 112 are restricted to some extent. As in Chrome Canary (v114), Google’s live translation feature that is currently under development features live captions. Another piece of news regarding this feature was given by Chrome feature researcher Leopeva64-2 on Reddit, who stated the UI update that will be managing download language packages for caption engine.

Users can now test Live Captions’ real-time translation using Chrome Canary. Under the Live Translation setting, there is a toggle switch that you can turn on. Only a few languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, and Italian, are supported by the browser for live captions. These can be translated into a variety of different languages, though. The captions will start playing again in the video in the language chosen for translation, which will take precedence over the Live Caption language option. All languages now have access to live captioning, although there is still a good chance that translation errors will occur.

With this version of Chrome Canary, the latest visual amendments include checkboxes that will let you add language icons and easily remove them with the trash icon. Along with that, Chrome’s global media controls are being updated in the latest version. With the drop-down for live caption language selection, a pop-up menu will appear along with a toggle for your already selected live translation settings.

These latest features will play a significant part in making the Chrome browser accessible for people with all kinds of disabilities and for those who are facing some kind of language barrier. Although these features are still being tested under Chrome Canary, it will take some time before we are able to experience them on our devices.