Use Listen to this page mode in Chrome

You can listen to the text you read with Standard playback or AI playback on a website on your Android device and:

  • Play, pause, rewind, or fast forward while you read.
  • Change the playback speed.
  • Select your preferred voice.
  • Turn on or off text highlighting & auto scroll.

Listen to a page on your device

Important: This feature isn’t available yet on all websites. If Listen to this page mode isn’t available in the menu, the page isn't available for playback.

When you use Listen to this page mode, you can use one of these playback modes:

  • Standard playback: Reads all the words on the page.
  • AI playback: Generates podcast-like conversations from the page.
Listen to a page with Standard playback

Important: To use this feature, make sure that you turn on Make searches and browsing better.

The languages available in Listen to this page mode for Standard playback are:

  • Arabic
  • Bengali
  • Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese

Learn how to translate pages and change Chrome languages.

  1. On your Android device, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. Go to a website with text that you’d like to read.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Listen to this page .
    • To exit Listen to this page mode, tap Close Close.
    • If you listen to a page with Standard playback, on the player, you can find "Standard playback."

Tips:

  • You can continue to browse the current website or switch to other tabs while you listen to a text.
  • You can continue to listen to text even if your screen is locked.
Listen to a page with AI playback

To use this feature, make sure that you:

  1. On your Android device, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. Go to a website with text that you’d like to read.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Listen to this page .
    • To exit Listen to this page mode, tap Close Close.
    • If you listen to a page with AI playback, on the player, you can find "AI playback."

Tips:

  • You can continue to browse the current website or switch to other tabs while you listen to a text.
  • You can continue to listen to text even if your screen is locked.
  • You can rate the AI playback. To rate, at the bottom right, tap Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down .

Manage your playback options

Important: If AI playback is available, it’ll be the default playback.

  1. On your Android device, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. Go to a website with text that you’d like to read.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Listen to this page .
  4. To manage playback options, tap the player.
    • To change the playback speed: Tap 1.0x.
    • To switch playback mode: At the bottom left, tap Switch playback mode .
  5. In "Standard playback," at the bottom right, tap Options More. You can:
    • Choose a voice: Tap Voice .
      • To preview a voice: Tap Preview .
    • Turn on or off text highlighting: Turn on or off Highlight text & auto scroll.

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