Google is starting to deploy a new feature in the Chrome mobile browser on Android called Listen to this page. As the name suggests, it can read out loud the web page opened in the browser.
This feature has playback controls similar to those found in music or podcast players. This allows you to pause, change the reading speed, scroll forward, or skip forward or backward by 10 seconds at a time.
It is also possible to change the voice used to narrate the text, as well as the language. The Listen to this page feature currently supports several languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Previously, you could ask Google Assistant to read the web page aloud and even translate it into other languages. But for this, you had to switch from Chrome to the Google app. The new feature keeps the user in the browser.
To use the new feature, you should open a page with a lot of text, and then touch the menu with three dots and select the Listen to this page option, which should appear below the Translate option. Currently, it is not available to all users, the deployment is ongoing. According to 9to5Google, it is already available in version 125 of the Chrome browser for Android. Google has also been testing this feature in the desktop version of Chrome.
Source: The Verge
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