Google presented the Pixel 11 phone range, the Pixel Watch 5 and a $29 tracking tag at its Made by Google event. On the software side, its Live Transcribe tool now turns American Sign Language filmed by the phone camera into text, and a new voice-input feature called Rambler is built to handle rambling, filler-heavy speech. The features are tied to Pixel hardware.
What changed
Live Transcribe did not read sign language, and voice input expected clearly phrased sentences.
What it unlocks
Translating American Sign Language into text through the phone camera, and dictating in loose, unstructured speech.
- Pixel 11 from $899, up $100
- Pixel Tag $29, $99 four-pack
- base storage 256GB
What you need to act on it
- a Pixel device
- techcrunch.com2026-08-12