Google has updated its Voice Search models to be powered by Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). Google said this allows it to "gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to text ...

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...

This post will walk you through configuring the Pixel 7’s language and input settings to make necessary adjustments to the Google TTS output. Here’s a quick guide to adjust text-to-speech output on ...

Google has updated the list of Google products and services that use the Google Read Aloud user agent. The updated page also ...

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Whether you're on the move or suffering from an unfortunate bout of carpal tunnel, there are plenty of scenarios when simply typing out passages of text on a keyboard just isn't the most feasible ...

Our teardown of the Google app has uncovered more potential Circle to Search features. One of these features is the ability to save the selected part of your screen to the cloud. It also looks like ...

As ChatGPT goes on a record-breaking run, Google Bard is slowly catching up to it. After a host of updates in May, Google began June by giving its generative AI tool access to your precise location ...

Google’s next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI. On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash, which the company says can natively generate images and audio ...

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Google Docs on the web recently received a new feature that lets users listen to their documents with Gemini. We spotted code that enables this feature on the Google Docs Android app and activated it ...