INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Just a few weeks back at CES, Google gave a sneak peek of a feature that would let your Android devices read entire web pages aloud to you
— perfect for when you don''t have a hand free to scroll but still need to catch up on some text, or for when you just don''t feel like
looking at your screen anymore
You&d say, &Hey Google, read this page,& and they&d spin up Google Assistant neural networks to generate a pretty dang spot-on reading of
it.
Today that feature starts rolling out to all Android users.
A few interesting bits:
It&ll highlight the text and auto scroll the page as
it reads, helping you to keep track of where the reading has gotten in a story
Google had mentioned this feature as a possibility before, but they weren''t certain it would be ready for launch
It in!
You can tweak the read speed if the defaults are too slow/fast for you
Perfect for those people who listen to podcasts at 3x or whatever.
It can translate! If the page you&re asking assistant to read is in a
language that isn''t your default, it can automatically translate more than 40 languages into your language of choice.
If you&re a webmaster
and for some reason don''t want Assistant ever reading a page out loud (like if it contains sensitive information and you don''t want the
feature somehow being triggered accidentally), they&ve built a &No page read aloud& HTML meta tag that will disable it on a page-by-page
basis.
Google says this feature should work on just about every modern Android phone going back to Android 5 (Lollipop).
