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Google Assistant has had the ability to read text messages from a long time but that feature wasn’t of use much because it was restricted to Google Apps only.

Recently, Android Police and 91 mobiles has noticed that Google is working on releasing the option to read texts from third party apps like WhatsApp, Slack, GroupMe, Discord, Telegram and so on.

The user can then have the Google Assistant read out the messages to them and also type in replies as dictated. For now the support will be limited to English language.

To be clear, this feature is under construction right now. You can’t tell your Google Assistant to type yet.

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Google Assistant will read messages and even reply when you’re busy

The feature of reading aloud the messages will be very useful when you’re driving or in general when you’re busy with something else at the moment.

Without picking up the phone, you will be able to know what message you just received on your smartphone.

How will you be able to use this feature

This feature was seen in phones (Android Pie), you can use it by setting up Google Assistant on your smartphone.

You just have to say the command read my messages and the assistant will read the messages aloud. There should be unread messages in the notification bar for this to work.

It will read out messages one by one in order. Initially, it will tell you the name of the sender and the app on which you received that message. If you reply yes to it, that message will be read aloud.

In the cases where the message received is not a text but a media such as photo, video or audio, Google Assistant will say that the message contains an audio/video/or a photo and won’t play or display the media for you.

After the text message is read out loud, the Assistant will ask you if you want to reply to it. You can then speak your message, and Assistant will type it out for you and send it to the group/individual.

Assistant will notify you when you’ve replied to the last message from the notifications.

This useful feature is now showing up on Android phones, and it seems to have been rolled out a few days ago.

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