Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google has introduced the flexibility to reply by textual content throughout cellphone calls.
- This means you don’t have to communicate throughout a cellphone name.
- The feature comes a yr after Samsung debuted Bixby Text Call on smartphones.
Samsung introduced the nifty Bixby Text Call feature roughly a a yr in the past, letting you kind out messages to a caller and have it’s learn aloud to them. This means, you don’t have to communicate when taking a name.
“Plus, you’ll soon have the ability to reply during phone calls by texting a response that’s read aloud — making it possible to take calls without needing to hear them or respond with your voice,” Google defined in a weblog publish, with out including any extra particulars.
Android textual content name: An enormous win for accessibility
It’s subsequently unclear whether or not this Android textual content name feature can be restricted to sure areas for now. There’s additionally no phrase on supported languages (we’re guessing English, on the very least) or whether or not there are particular system necessities. It does stand to purpose, nonetheless, that this isn’t a Pixel-exclusive feature on condition that this was introduced as a part of an Android Feature Drop quite than a Pixel Feature Drop.
Nevertheless, we hope this feature is extensively accessible. This may very well be extraordinarily helpful for folks with speech impairments or for many who merely don’t really feel like speaking on the cellphone.
We’ve requested Google concerning the textual content name feature’s availability and system necessities. We’ll replace the article if/when the corporate will get again to us.