"Spotify has launched a new feature called Page Match that lets you quickly sync your spot in a physical or ebook with an audiobook. Point your camera at a page, and the Spotify app uses computer vision to match text with audio. If you have to jump behind the wheel for a long drive, but didn't want to put down The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, you can just snap a pic to jump to the spot in the audiobook where you left off in the physical book."
"It's not unlike Amazon's Whispersync for Voice, which lets you seamlessly jump back and forth between Kindle books and Audible audiobooks. The difference is that Spotify's version works with physical books and ebooks on any ereader (though an ebook on your phone won't work since the app uses the camera and can't read your screen). Page Match will be available on "most English-language titles" at launch, and the company plans to expand over time."
Spotify launched Page Match, a feature that uses a phone camera and computer vision to locate a reader's position in a physical book or ebook and jump to the matching point in the audiobook. Users point the camera at a page; the app matches visible text to the audiobook's transcript and advances playback to the corresponding spot. The feature works with physical books and ebooks on most ereaders, but cannot read an ebook displayed on the phone screen. Page Match will support most English-language titles at launch and the company plans to expand availability over time.
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