Google Assistant is available on a number of devices in 90 different countries around the world, and Google says that the smart assistant is used by over 500 million people every month. At CES 2020, the Mountain View giant has now announced new features coming to the Assistant, and among them is a new feature that allows the Assistant to read out long articles from the web, and it can do so in 42 different languages.
Google Assistant to read out articles, stories to users in 42 languages
According to the video shown off by Google, calling the function is pretty easy. Users can only launch Google Assistant when they have a web page open and ask it to "read it". The company has developed the feature on new voice datasets so that the assistant speaks in more natural-sounding and expressive voices, making the experience better than what is currently offered by screen readers.
While the company hasn't specified all the languages the feature supports, Google's blog post mentions that it will be available in English, Hindi, German and Spanish.
Apart from that, the company says it is working on bringing features like text highlighting and auto-scroll to the reading mode to make it easier for users to read the text when it is read aloud.
