Google has wreaked havoc with TalkBack 15.0. When the Gemini description feature is enabled, you can't have access to offline text extraction. And under this circumstance, if your Internet connection is weak or lost for whatever reason, you won't have access to any sort of image description or text extraction at all. Moreover, even if Gemini description is disabled, labels for unlabeled icons are read with a 2 or 3-second delay whereas they were announced instantly with TalkBack 14.2 and 14.1. And on my S24 Ultra, if I disable Gemini description, local/offline text extraction oftentimes fails. That is, TalkBack reports the recognition accuracy, but doesn't announce or read the extracted text at all. Is Google aware of all of these? I don't know. Who makes these stupid decisions at Google? I don't know. Does beta-testing play a meaningful role in TalkBack development? Not sure.
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