Google is rolling out a handy update for Chrome on Android, as it’ll now assist you to zoom in on textual content with out affecting the looks of the webpage. You need to use a slider to enlarge textual content, after which set it for one web page or for all of the websites you go to.
Beforehand, while you zoomed in on a web page in Chrome’s Android app, it enlarged your entire web page, making the positioning harder to navigate. You possibly can check out the up to date zoom function by tapping the three-dot menu within the top-right nook of Chrome after which choosing how far you need to enhance the dimensions of the textual content.
Moreover, Chrome’s Optical Character Recognition instrument, which converts a picture of textual content right into a machine-readable format, will now robotically acknowledge scanned PDFs on desktop, letting you spotlight, copy, and seek for textual content, in addition to use a display screen reader with them. Google first began rolling out this function in beta earlier this yr, however now it’s accessible to all customers on desktop.
Google can be increasing Gemini’s integration with TalkBack on Android, a screenreader that makes use of AI to establish and describe photographs in your display screen. Now, TalkBack will allow you to ask follow-up questions on a picture, corresponding to what coloration an object is, what materials it’s manufactured from, and what else is within the picture.
The corporate is launching Expressive Captions as properly, which Google says “gives real-time captions for something with sound throughout most apps in your telephone — utilizing AI to not solely seize what somebody says, however how they are saying it.” Which means you’ll see captions that let you know when somebody is saying “noooooo” as a substitute of “no.” Google is including captions for extra sorts of sounds as properly, like whistling or somebody clearing their throat. This function is rolling out in English within the US, UK, Canada, and Australia on units working Android 15 and later.