Google is rolling out a brand new possibility known as “Hearken to this web page” that may learn a webpage out loud to you from inside the Android Chrome browser. The function comes with playback controls much like these you’d discover in music or podcast gamers, letting you pause, change the studying velocity, scrub ahead, or skip forward or again by 10 seconds at a time.
You too can change the voice it makes use of, in addition to the language. The function helps a number of, together with English, French, German, Arabic, Hindi, and Spanish, in response to a Google assist web page concerning the function. To see in case you have it, head to a web page with a whole lot of textual content, then faucet the three dots menu and “Hearken to this web page,” which ought to seem slightly below the Translate possibility.