{"id":881,"date":"2024-03-26T20:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=881"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:59:03","slug":"google-chrome-on-android-has-a-listen-to-this-page-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome on Android has a &#8220;Listen to this Page&#8221; Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Chrome has introduced its native &#8216;Listen to this page&#8217; text-to-speech (TTS) functionality. This feature is accessible within the three-dot menu of the Google Chrome Android app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mini-player has a circular play\/pause button positioned on the left side, accompanied by the page title, site name, a progress bar, and a close button. Upon tapping the mini-player, users are presented with a new sheet UI, showcasing a detailed timeline indicating the article&#8217;s length, along with rewind and fast forward controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the &#8216;Listen to this page&#8217; TTS feature offers the ability to adjust playback speed, ranging from 0.5x to 4x.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>To turn on this feature make sure you have Chrome 121 or above installed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>then go to &#8220;chrome:\/\/flags#read-aloud&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You&#8217;ll see a bunch of options with &#8220;Read Aloud&#8221; as the first one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the drop-down and choose Enabled<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let it reset the application and then go back in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now whatever page you are on\u2026 press the 3 dots in the top right corner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the Listen to this Page option<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now sit back and enjoy the audio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome has introduced its native &#8216;Listen to this page&#8217; text-to-speech (TTS) functionality. This feature is accessible within the three-dot menu of the Google Chrome Android app. The mini-player has a circular play\/pause button positioned on the left side, accompanied by the page title, site name, a progress bar, and a close button. Upon tapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}