Chrome’s reading mode might read articles out loud
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6E5X2)
Illustration: The Verge Google is experimenting with a text-to-speech feature for Chrome's reading mode on desktop, as reported by Android Police. I sometimes use a similar feature in Instapaper, and in Chrome, I could see it being a useful tool to listen to articles in the browser I'm already using while I work.
The feature can apparently be found in Chrome Canary, Google's bleeding edge version of Chrome, according to X user Leopeva64. If you have the feature, you can click a play button at the top of an article you're looking at in reading mode to have Google read the text. Leopeva64 also shared a link to a video showing off the feature on Reddit.
Chrome for desktop will also have the option to "read aloud" articles, the initial implementation of this...