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).