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Google Read Aloud user agent
Google-Read-Aloud
is the user agent for the Google Read Aloud service. This service enables reading web pages using
text-to-speech (TTS). This service is activated when an end user has TTS enabled and visits a
page. The Read Aloud service is used by
Google Go,
Google Read it,
Read Aloud on the Google app, and other Google text-to-speech services.
Crawl frequency and behavior
Google Read Aloud is triggered by a user request. Google Read Aloud conserves bandwidth by
caching page results, but you may still see multiple requests for a given page.
Google Read Aloud is not a web crawler: it is activated upon user request, and it doesn't follow
links. A user request for listening to a web page may or may not result in page visits, depending
on whether the page has been fetched recently.
Prevent Google Read Aloud from accessing your content
Since Google Read Aloud is initiated by a user, not a result of automated web crawl, you can't opt
out by using a robots.txt file. To opt out of Google Read Aloud completely, use the
nopagereadaloudmeta tag:
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