Google announced On Thursday, he introduces new AI functions and accessibility to Android and Chrome. Most importantly, the Android screen reader now allows Gemini to ask about what is in the pictures and what is on the screen.
Last year, Google brought Gemini's capabilities to Talkback to give blind people or have low access to descriptions of paintings generated by AI, even when ALT text is not available. Now people can ask questions and get answers about their photos.
For example, if a friend writes a photo of a new guitar, you can get a description and ask questions about the brand and color. In addition, you can now get descriptions and ask questions about the entire phone screen. So, if you are shopping in the application, you can ask Gemini about the material of the subject of the interested party or if a discount is available.
Google has also announced today that he updates expressive signatures, the function of real -time signatures android, which uses artificial intelligence to capture what someone says and says it.
Google says that he realizes that one of the ways in which people express themselves is to draw the sound of their words, which is why he has developed a new function of duration on expressive signatures. Now you will know if the sports announcer calls “a shot in Amaaaz”, or whether someone simply does not say “no”, but “non -ooo”. You will also start seeing new labels for sounds, for example, when a person whistles or cleanses the throat.
The update appears in English in the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Australia for devices with Android 15 and more.
Google also facilitates access to PDF files to Chrome. Until now, you would not be able to use a screen reader to interact with the scanned PDF in the Chrome browser. Now Chrome automatically recognizes these types of PDF files, enabling distinction, copying and searching for text like any other site and using the screen reader to read them. Google says that this is due to the introduction of optical recognition of characters (OCR).
In addition, enlargement of the website to Chrome on Android now allows you to increase the size of the text that you see without affecting the website layout. You can adapt how much you want to enlarge, then decide to apply a preference on all visited pages or just some. You can access this function by tapping the three dots in the upper right corner of Chrome.
