Spotify seems to be engaged on a novel characteristic that can permit audiobook listeners to select up the place they left off within the bodily e-book. Android Authority reviews that model 9.1.18.282 of the Spotify app consists of code references to a Web page Match beta characteristic that may rapidly sync audiobooks on the platform with their paper and book counterparts.
Utilizing Web page Match would require customers to unlock or buy the audiobook on Spotify, and personal both the paper or book model of the identical e-book. The characteristic works by scanning the web page you’re at present studying along with your system digicam, utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) to establish passages which might be then matched to particular timestamps within the audiobook.
The intention is to spare you from having to fast-forward and rewind manually, nevertheless it appears Web page Match might additionally work in reverse. Code snippets recommend that Spotify will even show the web page quantity that corresponds to your present audiobook place, making it simpler for bibliophiles to rapidly leap between listening and bodily studying. That is backed up by Spotify’s personal description of the characteristic, which might “match your progress from the e-book web page to the audiobook — and again once more.” Web page numbers can differ by e-book version, nevertheless, which might trigger some issues.
Spotify has but to announce Web page Match, so there’s no assure that it’ll roll out publicly. The OCR for Web page Match additionally isn’t at all times dependable, with Android Authority reporting that Spotify will ask you to scan a close-by web page if it’s unable to establish the passage you’re studying.
Amazon has an identical characteristic referred to as Whispersync for Voice that synchronizes Audible audiobooks with Kindle ebooks, however that resolution doesn’t assist syncing with paper books or ebooks on different platforms. Web page Match doesn’t have these limitations, which might make it simpler for folks to place down their bodily books and proceed listening whereas driving, cooking, and doing different hands-on actions — one thing I do recurrently to stay productive.
