Android introduces Reading mode and digital car key sharing - The Verge

Android has announced a batch of caller features for mobile and smartwatch devices, introducing caller accessibility tools and quality-of-life updates for integer car keys, Google TV, and watchOS. One of the large announcements is the instauration of a speechmaking mode for Android — a caller diagnostic that creates a much accessible surface speechmaking acquisition without being tied to circumstantial apps.

To usage Reading mode, you person to instal an app from the Google Play store, which provides caller adjustable show and audio options — specified arsenic contrast, font type, and size — allowing users to customize however contented is viewed connected their telephone to champion service their idiosyncratic needs. Additionally, a caller text-to-speech relation with velocity power is disposable with a enactment of “natural-sounding voices” to take from, with enactment for English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Reading mode is besides compatible with the Google Talkback surface scholar and works crossed websites and autochthonal Android apps.

Moving implicit to vehicles, an update to the digital car key diagnostic (which enables you to lock, unlock, and commencement a compatible car utilizing conscionable your phone) volition let you to remotely stock your integer cardinal with trusted individuals. Users tin presumption and power who has entree to their car from wrong the phone’s integer wallet app, though there’s nary notation if the quality to power entree volition beryllium restricted to a azygous “master” cardinal holder. Digital car keys tin initially beryllium shared to Pixel 6 and iPhone devices today, with the diagnostic expected to beryllium disposable to prime phones moving Android versions 12 oregon higher successful the adjacent future.

iPhone users person had entree to a akin feature for a portion now, though the enactment leafage notes that the work is babelike connected conveyance exemplary compatibility. Details are sparse regarding which cars and automakers volition enactment with Android’s ain integer car cardinal sharing diagnostic astatine launch. We’ve asked for clarification and volition update this communicative should we perceive back.

Some smaller updates see a caller batch of seasonal emoji mash-ups via Emoji Kitchen for Gboard and caller benignant designs created by DabsMyla and Yao Cheng Design successful the Google Photos collage exertion to customize your images. Google TV is besides getting a caller pat to ticker enactment that allows users to straight formed from the Google TV app to a compatible TV with a azygous tap. Users tin past utilize their phones arsenic a distant power portion browsing oregon utilizing different apps. The pat to ticker connected Google TV diagnostic volition statesman rolling retired to the app adjacent week.

And finally, the Google Keep app for Wear OS is getting an update aboriginal this period that carries implicit each the photos, co-authors, and inheritance colors added to your notes from your phone, making them viewable from your smartwatch. watchOS is besides getting a caller diagnostic implicit the adjacent week that allows users to rapidly entree implicit 30 types of exercises with the Adidas Running app via Google Assistant. Using the illustration fixed successful Android’s announcement, saying “Hey Google, commencement a tally with adidas Running” volition unfastened the app and automatically commencement tracking your workout.