Google Assistant is constantly enhancing its accessibility features, such as improving its real-time interpretation skills and expanding its hands-free capabilities And starting today, users can have Google read web pages to them

When you open a web article in your android phone's browser, say "Hey Google, read" or "Hi Google, read this page," and a Google Assistant will narrate the content published on that web page According to Google's announcement, this skill highlights the advanced text-to-speech technology that was previewed at CES

With this skill, Google can set the pace of the reading and follow the highlighted text as the page autoscrolls; Google Assistant can also translate the page from the language it was written in to a language of your choice language of your choice

According to Google, this feature is useful when you are tired and need to rest your eyes or when you are traveling and want local news translated Users around the world can benefit and learn from this new skill, which supports translations in 42 languages

Saying "read" can also provide better web access for users with reading or visual impairments Google states that this skill is a "voice-first experience" and users should not have to touch the screen much to make it work

No word yet on when this skill will be available on more devices In the past, however, Google Assistant functionality has been extended to iOS devices after a period of time

Google Assistant already had some lead over Alexa in terms of accessibility features, but today's addition further widens that gap