The users Android can now receive notifications for “critical noisesSuch as barking dogs, running water, or devices that emit audible signals.
Σdesigned for them approximately 466 million people worldwide with hearing loss (and for those who work from home with noise-canceling headphones), Google's new audible alerts send a warning message to your device when your baby starts crying or when the smoke detector sounds.
This feature — an extension of service Live Transcribe of Google, which shows more than 30 sound events with real-time descriptions — operates entirely offline and uses your mobile microphone to recognize 10 different noises, including knocking on the door.
The possibility Sound Notifications is available at Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches, providing vibrations directly to your wrist so you are ready for action even when you are asleep (a concern that occurs in deaf and hard of hearing communities).
"While we can alert you to baby sounds or dog barking, it often helps to know what happened before and what may have been upsetting., ”They wrote in a blog post The Sagar Savla and Sharlene Yuan, its production managers Google. "With the display of your timeline, you can scroll through a snapshot of the sounds detected in the last hours. "
Maybe it was a knock on the door that worried the dogs, or a beep of a device that woke the baby. "This shows when and for how long the noise occurred to give you a better idea of how important the noise was., ”The blog reported. Activate the new function via the path Settings> Accessibility> Audio Alerts. If the option does not appear automatically on your phone, try downloading it Live Transcribe and Sound Notifications directly from Google Play.
Η Apple, recently released a similar Accessibility feature in iOS 14, which listens to alarms, animals, household noises and people and then alerts users when something needs their attention.
