{"id":233531,"date":"2024-06-18T07:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/chrome-rolls-out-listen-to-this-page-tts-feature-on-android\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:49","slug":"chrome-rolls-out-listen-to-this-page-tts-feature-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/chrome-rolls-out-listen-to-this-page-tts-feature-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome rolls out \u2018Listen to this page\u2019 TTS feature on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dfvz0pr-a0225d28-1ef7-4566-a8ff-9104b9d6990b-900x506.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chrome for Android has been focusing on text-to-speech capabilities over the last few months, and now Google is officially rolling out the \u2018Listen to this page\u2019 function more widely.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of reading through a text-heavy web page, <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/microsoft-edge-steals-your-data-from-google-chrome\/\">Google can read it<\/a> out to you in your chosen language and a voice of your choosing.<\/p>\n<p>Text-to-speech is where the words on a computer are converted into audio which makes it especially helpful and inclusive for those who are unable to see the contents of the page.<\/p>\n<p>This tool was quietly introduced through a new addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/answer\/14768725?hl=en-GB\">Google Chrome Help section<\/a>. Whilst it\u2019s being rolled out as we speak, it isn\u2019t yet available on all websites.<\/p>\n<p>For the pages that are available, the \u2018Listen to this page\u2019 addition will give you the choice of a few key functions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play, pause, rewind, or fast forward while you read.<\/li>\n<li>Change the playback speed.<\/li>\n<li>Select your preferred voice.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on or off text highlighting and auto-scroll.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple languages are available too including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>You can even switch between different tabs while you\u2019re listening to a text being read out loud and can continue hearing the audio even when the screen is locked.<\/p>\n<p>There are more playback options too including increasing the speed and choosing a voice. These options include a warm mid-pitch, calm mid-pitch, bright low-pitch, and peaceful low-pitch.<\/p>\n<h2><b>How to use Chrome for Android\u2019s new \u2018Listen to this page\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>On your Android device, open the <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/trader-loses-800k-in-crypto-to-malicious-google-chrome-extension\/\">Chrome browser<\/a> and go to the website that you\u2019d like to read.<\/p>\n<p>At the top right, click the \u2018More\u2019 icon which looks like three dots in a vertical line. You should then see \u2018Listen to this page\u2019 alongside a small play button.<\/p>\n<p>To customize playback options, tap the player, and then the different variations will be visible for you to flick between.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom right, you\u2019ll see \u2018Options\u2019 which are three buttons in a horizontal line. This gives you the chance to change the voice, preview the possibilities, and turn on or off text highlighting.<\/p>\n<p>If a page doesn\u2019t yet have the feature rolled out, it won\u2019t appear in the overflow menu at all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured Image: Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/komfort-zone\/art\/Chrome-Browser-960694623\">Deviant Art<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/chrome-rolls-out-listen-to-this-page-tts-feature-on-android\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chrome for Android has been focusing on text-to-speech capabilities over the last few months, and now Google is officially rolling out the \u2018Listen to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}