Google’s flurry of accessibility updates goes well beyond improvements to Maps. It’s releasing its long-promised Action Blocks feature (above) as an Android app, greatly simplifying Google Assistant tasks for people with cognitive and motion disabilities. You can call a family member, turn the lights off or take a selfie with a single tap on the home screen.

Live Transcribe is also considerably more useful for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Its updated Android app can vibrate your phone when someone nearby says your name, allows custom names for places and objects, and makes it easier to search through past conversations. Seven new languages are available, too, including Albanian, Estonian and Punjabi.

The new features will hit Live Transcribe next month, and the app is available on 1.8 billion Android devices. Google is mainly leaning on its cloud-based machine learning and speech recognition tech for the app, so it can easily run on less powerful phones.

This is an area where Google is also competing heavily with Microsoft, which reached near-human accuracy with its speech recognition engine in 2016. Since then, it’s brought similar transcription capabilities within Teams, Skype, and Office apps. Given the growing importance of voice controlled assistants and UI accessibility, expect to see tech companies focusing even more on accurate speech recognition over the next few years.