{"id":178310,"date":"2024-01-19T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=178310"},"modified":"2024-01-19T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:23:08","slug":"chrome-for-android-now-comes-with-a-built-in-feature-for-listening-to-page-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/chrome-for-android-now-comes-with-a-built-in-feature-for-listening-to-page-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome for Android now comes with a built-in feature for listening to page content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome for Android will soon get a built-in TTS (Text to Speech) \u201cListen to this page\u201d feature.\u00a0It will be available in the browser menu, and launching it will activate a mini-player with play\/pause and rewind buttons, as well as a playbar and web page title.\u00a0The player can adjust the listening speed (0.5, 0.8, 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3 and 4).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google.jpg\" alt=\"Image source: 9To5Google\" width=\"1150\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-800x1781.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-1030x2293.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-45x100.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-770x1714.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-690x1536.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-920x2048.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-236x525.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-source-9To5Google-713x1587.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: 9To5Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the right there are several buttons that allow you to turn &#8220;Text Highlight and Auto Scroll&#8221; on or off, as well as select a different voice.\u00a0If the user opens another tab, the player remains pinned, and if the device is locked, playback will continue.\u00a0When you close your browser and return to the Home screen, the Listen to This Page feature is interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>According to 9To5Google, Chrome 120 for Android introduced an experimental Read Aloud feature (chrome:\/\/flags\/#read-aloud).\u00a0It must be activated to get the &#8220;Listen to this page&#8221; feature for Chrome 121 beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the new feature is activated, a mini-player appears with play\/pause, rewind and speed selection buttons. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/chrome-for-android-now-comes-with-a-built-in-feature-for-listening-to-page-content\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":178312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-178310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-news"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}