It is with a more natural and expressive voice that Assistant is now ready to read aloud the web pages or articles you submit to him. This feature, called "Read it", will be deployed within the year;

 While Alexa finds itself embedded on more and more products, Google reminds us since CES that it is far from being an extra. Available in 90 countries and on a billion devices, Google Assistant has just passed the 500 million monthly active users mark. The software will be enriched in the coming months with a series of new features.

The most impressive is "Read It". It will enable the reading aloud of long texts such as web pages, news articles and why not - one day - news-type literature. Google's teams have succeeded in developing a synthetic voice that is more natural and expressive and more pleasant to the ear of users, who have been put off by a monotone and chopped up until now. A simple "Ok Google, read this page" will launch the reading of content in Chrome, the Google app or Google News. And it will be possible to translate them into 42 different languages.

Source : 01net.com