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HAVE YOUR WEBPAGE OR BLOG READOUT LOUD FOR YOU FOR FEE (GOOGLE)

G oogle has launched a new feature for its lightweight Go search app: text-to-speech reading for websites. The tool is designed to make the web feel more accessible for users in developing countries, says Google, reading any site aloud at the touch of a button. Impressively, it’s powered by the company’s AI but lightweight enough to use over a 2G connection — an important feature for markets where bandwidth comes at a premium. G o launched last year in India and Indonesia as part of a growing suite of Google products meant to capture the “next billion” internet users. As the tech giant noted in an accompanying blog post, India already has the second largest population of internet users in the world, with 40 million new users coming online each year. That’s a lot of potential growth. T ext-to-speech will make the web more accessible for new users, says Google. It might also help those individuals who don’t use text at all. As a report last year in The Wall Street Journal noted, users in...