The Google Assistant virtual assistant for the Android platform is becoming more useful for people with vision problems, as well as those who study foreign languages. The developers have added the ability for the assistant to read aloud the contents of web pages.
Google says that the new feature combines many of the company's advances in speech technology. This makes the feature work more naturally than conventional text-to-speech tools. All you have to do to start using the new feature is to say, “Ok Google, read this” while browsing a web page. As you read, the virtual assistant will highlight the spoken text. In addition, as you read, the page will automatically scroll down. Users can change the reading speed, as well as move from one part of the page to another, if they do not need to read the entire text.
The new feature will be useful for people learning foreign languages. For example, if the page being viewed is displayed in their native language, the user can use the virtual assistant to translate it into one of the 42 supported languages. At the same time, Google Assistant will not only translate the page into the selected language in real time, but will also voice the translation.
Google Assistant's new "read this" feature has already begun to go mainstream. In the near future it will be available to all users of devices based on Android.
Source: 3dnews.ru