Whereas not as massive of an improve as One UI 7, Samsung’s Android 16-based One UI 8 nonetheless packs loads of significant enhancements. There’s deeper Galaxy AI integration as effectively for a greater expertise. Samsung additionally features a new Voice captioning characteristic in One UI 8, enabling real-time speech-to-text translation. Whereas the characteristic is China-exclusive and never part of the worldwide One UI 8 construct, you possibly can sideload the APK to allow it in your Galaxy telephone.
Samsung telephones already ship with Dwell Captions, enabling them to transcribe voice to textual content in actual time. Nevertheless, the characteristic doesn’t translate the textual content right into a language you might be aware of.
Voice captioning goals to unravel this drawback, because it helps “real-time conversion of speech to captions, and it may additionally present translations in a number of languages.” Samsung says the characteristic is greatest suited to convention calls or audio system (by way of @GalaxyTechie).
In contrast to Dwell Captions, Voice captioning helps a number of languages, although it’s essential to obtain the language packs for translation beforehand.
Consider Voice captioning like Galaxy AI’s Dwell Translate characteristic, which transcribes and interprets voice and WhatsApp calls in real-time. Voice captioning extends the identical performance to different apps. You need to use the characteristic along with your telephone’s audio, microphone audio, or each concurrently.
The interpretation seems in a floating, clear black overlay which you could transfer and resize to fit your wants. Plus, there’s an choice to generate a abstract of the translated textual content on the finish. And once you shut the overlay window, you will get a immediate to avoid wasting the transcribed textual content as a Phrase file.
Sideload the APK to attempt Voice captioning at present
You’ll be able to attempt sideloading the APK in your Galaxy telephone working One UI 7 or One UI 8 to see if Voice captioning works. As soon as put in, add the Voice captioning tile to the Fast Settings panel and faucet it everytime you need to activate the characteristic. The characteristic labored reliably on my Galaxy S23 Extremely working One UI 7 and the July safety patch, although your mileage could range.
Samsung might bundle Voice captioning within the steady One UI 8 construct for the Galaxy S25 sequence and finally deliver it to its latest foldables.