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Chrome will help those who don't like reading

The new feature has already arrived for several cell phone owners who use the Android system; Find out if your device already has this feature.

Imagine the following situation: your team just won the championship, but you weren't able to watch the game last night. He went to bed early because he needed to get up early the next day. He woke up and went straight to the shower. The desire, however, was to read everything about the achievement on the internet.

Given this situation, you have a few options:

1) Wait until you finish taking a shower to read what you want;

2) Buy a waterproof cell phone to read in the middle of the shower;

3) Or use Google Chrome's new tool that narrates web pages for you.

There's no wrong answer, okay? But I just tested option number 3 and it worked great for me. The new feature has not yet reached everyone, but Google intends to roll it out to all cell phone owners using the Android system.

The company is also considering adding this option to Chrome on computers. On mine, however, nothing appears yet. For iPhone owners, it is worth highlighting that Safari has had a function similar to this for some time, which was called “Listen to Page”.

Oh, and if you don't like football (or your team is in the worst shape), go back to the beginning of the text and reread it as if it were about a series you like. ‘You just watched that series you love so much and saw that a text came out explaining the last episode and projecting the next season. But you woke up early and need to take a shower…’ – and so on.

How do I know if I already have this option?...To see if you do, go to a web page with a lot of text and tap the three-dot menu at the top right of the screen.

The “Listen to this page” topic is right below “Translate”.

The coolest thing is that the new feature comes with playback controls similar to those you find on music players or podcasts.

In other words, it allows you to pause, change the reading speed, advance or rewind 10 seconds at a time.

You can also change the voice used as well as the language.

According to big tech, the languages ​​available in “Listen to this page” mode are German, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.

Remembering that you can also ask Google Assistant to read web pages aloud – and even translate them into other languages.

This, however, would take you out of Chrome and into the general Google app.

With the new option, you remain in the browser.