{"id":168451,"date":"2025-05-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/google-rolls-out-new-ai-and-accessibility-features-to-android-and-chrome-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:00:00","slug":"google-rolls-out-new-ai-and-accessibility-features-to-android-and-chrome-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/google-rolls-out-new-ai-and-accessibility-features-to-android-and-chrome-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Google announced<\/a> on Thursday that it\u2019s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome. Most notably, TalkBack, Android\u2019s screen reader, now lets you ask Gemini about what\u2019s in images and what\u2019s on your screen.<\/p>\n

Last year, Google brought Gemini\u2019s capabilities to TalkBack<\/a> to give people who are blind or have low vision access to AI-generated descriptions for images, even when Alt text isn\u2019t available. Now, people can ask questions and get responses about their images.<\/p>\n

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For example, if a friend texts you a photo a their new guitar, you can get a description of it and ask questions about the brand and color. In addition, you can now get descriptions and ask questions about your whole phone screen. So, if you\u2019re shopping in an app, you can ask Gemini about the material of an item you\u2019re interested in or if there is a discount available.<\/p>\n

Google also announced today that it\u2019s updating Expressive Captions, Android\u2019s real-time captions feature that uses AI to capture what someone says, and how they say it. <\/p>\n

Google says it\u2019s aware that one of the ways people express themselves is by dragging out the sound of their words, which is why it has developed a new duration feature on Expressive Captions. Now, you\u2019ll know if a sports announcer is calling out an \u201camaaazing shot\u201d or when someone isn\u2019t simply saying \u201cno\u201d but \u201cnooooo.\u201d You\u2019ll also start to see new labels for sounds, such as when a person is whistling or clearing their throat.<\/p>\n

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The update is rolling out in English in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia for devices running Android 15 and above.<\/p>\n

Google is also making it easier to access PDFs on Chrome. Up until now, you wouldn\u2019t be able to use your screen reader to interact with a scanned PDF in your desktop Chrome browser. Now, Chrome automatically recognizes these types of PDFs, allowing you to highlight, copy, and search for 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.<\/p>\n

Plus, Page Zoom on Chrome on Android now lets you increase the size of the text you see without affecting the webpage layout. You can customize how much you want to zoom in and then choose to apply the preference to all of the pages you visit, or just certain ones.\u00a0You can access this feature by tapping the three-dot menu in the top right corner of Chrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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