Android Is Now Using AI to Upgrade Your Phone's Closed Captions

If you've ever watched a movie with closed captioning, you've probably seen [APPLAUSE] or [dramatic music] pop up at the bottom of the screen to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing better understand the non-dialog audio elements that shape what's happening in a scene. Google is bringing a similar capability to the Android mobile operating system, and, naturally, it's powered by artificial intelligence. This is one of many new features coming to Android and Google Pixel devices today. Expressive Captions is a new tool that's part of Google's existing Live Caption feature, which enables captions on almost any media playing on your phone, no matter what app you're in. The new addition expands the scope by captioning tone and nonspeech elements.