Chrome on Android can read webpages out loud from within the app

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Google is rolling retired a caller enactment called “Listen to this page” that tin work a webpage retired large to you from wrong the Android Chrome browser. The diagnostic comes with playback controls akin to those you’d find successful euphony oregon podcast players, letting you pause, alteration the speechmaking speed, scrub forward, oregon skip up oregon backmost by 10 seconds astatine a time.

You tin besides alteration the dependable it uses, arsenic good arsenic the language. The diagnostic supports several, including English, French, German, Arabic, Hindi, and Spanish, according to a Google assistance leafage astir the feature. To spot if you person it, caput to a leafage with a batch of text, past pat the 3 dots paper and “Listen to this page,” which should look conscionable beneath the Translate option.

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You tin besides inquire Google Assistant to work webpages retired large to you, and can adjacent construe into different languages portion it does so. But choosing that enactment takes you retired of Chrome and into the Google app, whereas the caller enactment keeps you successful your browser.

Google has besides tested the diagnostic for Chrome connected desktops. Safari for the iPhone has a akin feature called “Listen to Page” that reads webpages to you successful Siri’s voice, with galore of the aforesaid controls arsenic Google’s. I lone saw the caller enactment portion utilizing the beta mentation of Chrome, but that’s reasonably normal, since Google regularly handles its rollouts successful phases. 9to5Google reports seeing it successful mentation 125 of the Android Chrome app.