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Business · 18 August 2026
Reddit is trialling a feature that transforms selected text posts into brief videos, where AI voices narrate the primary post and a selection of comments. The company is manually selecting posts for this limited experiment, which highlights the text as it's read. The feature will roll out on iOS and Android from Tuesday.
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