Even though Google is said to be phasing Duo out, the company tweeted out a short video confirming the new feature, which is coming to both Android and iOS.
Android Police confirmed that this captioning functionality is for sent video and voicemail on Duo, and is a separate feature to Live Caption, the Google feature on Pixel phones (and some other Android devices) that captions live audio on the screen.
Google is touting the feature as being handy in a noisy place for you to still be able to read the captioning from a video or audio message in Duo, but it is of course also a great accessibility feature.
Henry is Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, ensuring he and the team covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about for readers and viewers all over the world. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
