Google Announced On Thursday, it is rolling out new AI and accessibility features for Android and Chrome. Most especially, talkback, screen reader of Android, now you ask Mithun what is in images and what is on your screen.
Last year, Google brought Gemini’s capabilities to talk to those who are blind, or have a low vision access to AI-related details for images, even when the alt text is not available. Now, people can ask questions and get reactions about their images.
For example, if a friend gives you a photo to their new guitar, you can get the details of this and ask questions about the brand and color. Also, now you can get the details and ask questions about your entire phone screen. Therefore, if you are shopping in an app, you can ask Gemini about the content of the item in which you are interested or if any discount is available.
Google also announced today that it is updating the expressive caption, the real-time caption feature of Android that uses AI using AI that says to someone, and how they call it.
Google says that it is known that one of the ways of expressing people themselves is by pulling the voice of its words, which is why it has developed a new period facility at the expressive caption. Now, you will know that a sports angel is saying “Amaaazing Shot” or when a person is not just “not” not “, but” Nooooo “. You will also start seeing new labels for sounds, such as when a person is whistling or cleaning his throat.
This update is rolling out for devices running Android 15 and above in English in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Google is also making it easy to reach PDFS on Chrome. So far, you will not be able to use your screen reader to interact with the scanned PDF in your desktop chrome browser. Now, Chrome automatically recognizes this type of PDF, so that you can highlight, copy and search the text like any other page and use your screen reader to read them. This is thanks to the introduction of optical character recognition (OCR), Google says.
In addition, the page zoom on Chrome on Android now lets you increase the size of the text you see without affecting the web-page layout. You can customize how much zoom you want to zoom and then choose to apply preference on all those pages that you are watching, or just something sure. You can access this feature by tapping the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the chrome.
