Automatic audio playback of displayed textual content

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• obtaining data descriptive of one or more items of content that include a plurality of portions of textual content;
• determining positional data that indicates respective positions of one or more of the portions of textual content on a display associated with the computing device;
• receiving data indicative of a user input that modifies the respective positions of the one or more of the portions of textual content relative to the display;
• and
• responsive to receiving the data indicative of the user input:
• determining updated positional data that indicates respective updated positions of the one or more of the portions of textual content;
• identifying, based at least in part on the updated positional data, that a first portion of textual content is positioned within a playback area of the display;
• and
• causing playback of an audio signal that includes speech of at least a portion of the first portion of textual content, wherein the speech of at least a portion of the first portion of textual content is determined at least in part using a trained machine learned model.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media that store instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining data descriptive of one or more items of content that include a plurality of portions of textual content;
• determining positional data that indicates respective positions of one or more of the portions of textual content on a display associated with the computing device;
• receiving data indicative of a user input that modifies the respective positions of the one or more of the portions of textual content relative to the display;
• and
• responsive to receiving the data indicative of the user input:
• determining updated positional data that indicates respective updated positions of the one or more of the portions of textual content;
• identifying, based at least in part on the updated positional data, that a first portion of textual content is positioned within a playback area of the display;
• and
• causing playback of an audio signal that includes speech of at least a portion of the first portion of textual content, wherein the speech of at least a portion of the first portion of textual content is determined at least in part using a trained machine learned model.