Android has offered a text-to-speech engine for quite some time, but it's not readily available. Now with Google's reading mode app, you can easily read texts aloud on any screen on Android smartphones. It also comes with features like reading speed, text customization and more. Best of all, you can read out texts in private apps like WhatsApp and Gmail too. So to install the reading mode app and enable the feature on Android, follow the steps below.

Firstly, after you enable reading mode, you get the option to customize the shortcut to launch reading mode on any screen of your Android phone. You can add an accessibility button or press and hold both volume buttons to activate it.

Now open any web page in Chrome or your favorite Android browser and tap the reading mode shortcut icon on the side of the screen, or any other trigger method of your choice. I like to use Google Assistant and just ask it to "open reading mode", and it does the job just fine.

Once you have activated the reading mode, the contents of the phone's screen will be presented in a more readable and friendly format. No more watching floating ads, pop-up ads, or those annoying video ads on some websites. Google reading mode also works in private apps like WhatsApp and Gmail and even in offline mode.