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My watch told me I have a leak

• An AbilityNet article describes how Google’s Live Transcribe app, which turns speech into text for live conversations, can also be trained with non-voice data. An update to the app can now identify environmental sounds such as “crying baby”, “door knocking”, “smoke alarm”, or as the title suggests, “running water”. The app can vibrate or flash for these noises, and Google announced in October 2020 that it will soon be able to notify your Android watch (Wear OS), though the ‘listening’ will still be done through a nearby phone. The next step will be to bring environmental noise detection natively to any devices that contain a microphone.

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