The ‘Listen to this page’ option offers an audio-reading like facility and has the same type of controls as does a podcast.
The dawn of the modern chrome on the android.
Google is moving upmarket with its latest feature: Say ‘This page’, for example. Debuting on Chrome for Android, it brings a vast change in how you will look at Web pages. The next new feature is that the software reads the content of web pages and this, of course, makes the software more useful in the aspect of accessibility.
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This feature like the podcast controls are available under the three-dot menu on the top right corner of the chrome app. It offers control, which may include play, pause, and skip forward or backward by a time of 10 seconds, or even alter the option of speed of the video. Still, it is not fully compatible with other web sites.
As for the languages supported by input methods, the list is rather extensive.
This feature is supposed to be as broad as possible covers reading in English, French, German, Arabic, Hindi and Spanish. It also provides various voices for the languages, four voices for the united states and two for the united kingdom. A new tool that is brought to the table is the highlighting of the text as being read. Facility of A & M taken to the next level in the sense that the control bar is always visible even when other tabs are opened. Moreover, even if you lock the screen, and keep Chrome active, the video keeps playing in the background.
A gradual deployment
Located in the Chrome 125 version, this application is released step-by-step. This is why one has to be patient because this novelty may not be instantly available in your house. That said, it is worth to recall that Google Assistant had been able to read web pages aloud for quite a while already. But this new feature provides an option that most users would find rather useful.