More attentive to people with disabilities
On the accessibility front, for instance, comes real-time transcription via machine learning of everything that passes through the sound card. It is activated by pressing the Windows + Control + L key combination and initially asks for a local vocabulary download: the system works even without a permanent Internet connection.
While most video content already has subtitles, even automatic ones, this does not apply in the case of Teams meetings, for example, or Zoom. Thanks to real-time transcription, a deaf person can follow the conversation without any problem.
The ‘caption’, as it is called in Italian, occupies the upper part of the desktop but can be repositioned like a normal window. Among the special features of the system is the possibility to include one’s own microphone and, above all, to automatically filter out vulgar content. The only limitation at the moment is the presence of the English vocabulary only: it cannot be used with other languages.
Drag & drop on the taskbar at last, but tabs in Windows Explorer only in a while
Windows 11, we had seen last year, was a bit of a work in progress: old apps hidden under a newer theme, ‘dark’ mode not flawless in its management, and many other small limitations that held back many users, who preferred to stay with Windows 10. With the update, many of these things have been revised, especially in the menu and toolbar areas. The latter, and here many will be able to breathe a sigh of relief, finally supports drag & drop: if you drag a Jpeg file onto the Photoshop icon the app will be brought to the foreground and you can then automatically open the file, or a group of files.