duddy Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 NEW GOOGLE ASSISTANT FEATURE TURNS THE ENTIRE INTERNET INTO YOUR PERSONAL AUDIO BOOK The ability to read any web page aloud At its most basic, this new feature does exactly what you expect. It allows the Google Assistant to simply read web pages aloud to you in a natural-sounding voice with a nice cadence. Pauses for commas and periods are dictated the way you’d expect and the decidedly-digital voice sounds very natural. The Assistant reads off the title, the author, and then begins to read through the entire article, highlighting each word spoken along the way. But it gets better. Way better read aloud playback controls When you start a reading session, the entire thing happens in a dedicated media player that gives you options to play/pause, skip ahead or back, and change the playback speed from 0.5x all the way up to 3x. On top of that, the player behaves just like any other media player in that it provides the ability to continue playing when the screen is locked and gives you a rich notification with playback controls as well. This allows you to start up the reader for a long article and go about doing something else while the Assistant reads the entire thing to you. Even better is the fact that websites don’t need anything special in place to take part in all this. No extra code, no tags, no meta data: the Assistant can read any web page unless the web developer for that site has included the proper meta tag that disallows this. Google claims that this can happen for sites in up to 42 different languages, so this new features is definitely not limited to just English. They didn’t specify which languages are supported. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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