What is this app and why cant i turn it off

[Efnd]

Hi,

I’ve been using e os for some time and was reasonly happy with it, until I came across this by accident:

I forced stopped it, but when I return by default its turned back on.

The amount of permissions it has is staggering, I can’t seem to turn these off.

What is this, why is this on e os, why can’t I remove it, and why wasn’t I notified of its existence?

Its a hard to find “app”. I found this by accident. Are there more of these kind of apps? Does this has to do with the open ai data collecting e os has been involved in? If so, why can’t I opt out, and how do I know it is not collecting data anyway.

Privacy OS’s should not include ai data collection.

[tcecyk]

live caption is part of the accessibility stack of /e/OS. It’s for hearing impairment to translate audio to text. It needs explicit enablement to get access to audio streams. No data is collected, it works locally if enabled.

Android Accessibility Implementation in /e/OS

[Efnd]

I’ve seen that page of the accessibility live caption. This seems to be something different, its not on the utility apps tab.

I can’t turn off the permissions it has either, which are different from the utility captions app:

-connecting to devices nearby

-contacts

-phone conversation

-camera

-mic

-network

-location

-open supported links

List goes on

It also does not seem to be running locally, as it using mobile data.

And as stated above, I can’t turn these off.

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[aibd]

The app is Version 1.1 foundation.e.livetranscribe from your App info page.

When I pull down Quick settings twice to see at the foot of that page “Active apps”, this app is not on the list of Active apps.