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US-based Yahoo! announces "Live Text" feature: Text messaging alongside video chat
On July 29, Yahoo! announced "Live Text," a mobile chat app that overlays text messages onto silent video feeds. With Live Text, typing text during a video chat causes characters and emojis to appear on the video screen. It lacks voice features like FaceTime or Skype.
At the announcement, Yahoo! Senior Vice President Adam Kahane explained, "The biggest problem for users with video chat is that unrelated people around them can hear the conversation. By removing audio, video chat becomes simpler and more casual to use."
Like many other messaging apps, users can find friends through their mobile device's address book. Chat is only possible after a friend request is accepted. Chat data is not saved.
It has already been tested in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ireland, and officially launched in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and France on July 30.
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