“The feature is extremely useful for people with visual or reading difficulties, or who simply need a little help reading meatier articles,” Google said. We believe that the feature will be useful for everyone as there are times when you want to read something but don’t have a hand free to scroll the page or your eyes are tired of looking at the screen whole day long.
Google says that the Assistant will automatically scroll the page and highlight words as it reads aloud the content to help users follow along. It says that the feature also allows users to alter the reading speed to suit their liking as well as give the option to choose from multiple voices.
Google notifies that websites don’t need to do anything special to enable this functionality and developers can simply add the ability for Google Assistant to read aloud content in their mobile app using Actions on Google.
