Google May Add Adaptive Sound and Song Recognition to Live Caption on Pixel 5
Dec. 2, 2020Google will reportedly add a new ‘Adaptive Sound’ feature to Pixel 5 very soon. The feature, spotted by XDA’s Mishaal Rahman in an APK teardown of the latest Device Personalization Services app, is likely to make its way to Pixel 5 and presumably toPixel 4a 5Gin an upcomingPixel Feature Drop.
Unlike Adaptive Sound found onPixel Buds 2TWS earbuds that increases volume in noisy environments, Adaptive Sound on Pixel 5 willimprove the audio quality by automatically adjusting equalizer (EQ) settingsto better suit the environment. As a result, the feature eliminates the hassle of manually adjusting EQ.Image Courtesy: Mishaal Rahman / XDA
From the looks of it, Google seemingly had planned to ship Adaptive Sound along withPixel 5this October. Asspottedby Twitter user @siluah, the Amazon listing for Pixel 5 mentioned the existence of the feature at launch. However, the reference to adaptive speakers got removed soon after the launch of the handset.Image: siluah / Twitter
Another upcoming feature uncovered in the APK teardown is an enhancement to theLive Captionfeature. According to the report,Google may add song recognition capability to Live Caption.This way, the caption will show the song’s title and artist’s name instead of simply showing [MUSIC]. Like Adaptive Sound, we could expect this much-needed improvement to get added to Pixel 5 in the next update.
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