The Google Assistant will be able to read articles out loud in 42 languages

Google is “previewing” a new feature here at CES for the Google Assistant on Android phones that turns it into a supercharged screen reader. When you say “Hey Google, read this,” it will find the main text on whatever webpage or article you’re looking at and read it out loud to you.

Screen readers aren’t new on phones, but Google says it has improved the Assistant’s ability to parse sentences and therefore speak them with more natural, human-sounding cadences.

The flashiest feature, however, is that you can also ask the Assistant to read it out loud to you in a different language, up to 42 of them. You can hear an example of how the voice tries to sound more natural by parsing sentence patterns in the promo video Google has made for...

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