There is one more reason Google is outing audiobooks at the Play store now - its growing cohort of smart speakers is the perfect venue for consuming this type of content, and a lot of people have been complaining that they have to get the audiobook from a third-party vendor, then fumble to stream it to Google Home while cooking, for instance.
Well, no more, as you can now stream audiobooks directly from Google's connected speakers laden with its virtual Assistant butler, here's how:
2. Say "OK, Google, read my book" to start listening from your smart speaker, or, if you have purchased several titles, say "OK, Google, read [book title]."
3. There are a few other commands you can use while listening, apart from the usual "OK, Google, pause/resume/skip ahead 10 seconds or minutes" that work the same as with listening to music, and these are:
"OK, Google, previous/next chapter."
"OK, Google, how much time is left?"
“Ok Google, stop playing in 20 minutes”
"OK, Google, who wrote this?
5. If you want another device to take over the reading duties from the Google Home speaker(s), you can simply say "OK, Google, read my book on [Chromecast name]," and that's that.
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