Overview

• TalkBack, Android’s screen reader, now integrates Google’s Gemini AI, enabling users to ask detailed follow-up questions about images and screen content.
• Expressive Captions now reflect speech duration and include expanded sound labels, enhancing real-time captioning for English-speaking users in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia on Android 15+ devices.
• Chrome on desktop introduces Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned PDFs, allowing users to highlight, search, and interact with text using screen readers.
• Chrome for Android debuts Page Zoom, enabling text resizing without altering webpage layouts, with customizable settings for individual or all pages.
• Google provides open-source tools for developers via Project Euphonia and partners with UCL’s Centre for Digital Language Inclusion to create speech models for 10 African languages.