Speaking Buttons

HobbySoft

About this app

This application speaks the words or phrases previously assigned to the buttons.

The "Speaking Buttons" application is able to speak for you in situations where you cannot use your own voice. For example, at a dentist appointment you will be able to tell the doctor about your health and sensations by pressing the appropriate button while your mouth is wide open.

The timbre of the voice (female or male) depends on the Text-to-Speech settings of your phone or tablet.

In the application settings, you can configure 2, 4, 6 or any other number of buttons and assign a phrase or word to each of them. Also you can select the color for each button and the size of the spoken text on the button. If there are many buttons, you may rearrange them in the configuration mode by drag & drop.

The application does not require registration and runs with minimal permissions on your device. All button and phrase settings are stored only locally on your device.

Ratings and reviews

I really like this app. I like that you can have as many buttons as you like. I would give 5 stars but I have a gripe. When you add more columns the layout of all the buttons you've put in changes. This is quite annoying. If it could either just put the column in the end and not affect the layout, OR have a way to move buttons around that would be helpful. Also maybe ways to have multiple button boards for different categories of words. I use columns for that but different boards might help.

Great simple app. I use it to speech train my parrot. I would love to have a feature to record my own voice instead of a generic text to speech Google voice. Also, it would be helpful if the screen could be locked (sometimes my parrot moves the screen and it shows the settings buttons). Other than that, fantastic!

Good idea, but like other users said, you can't change it from this annoying female voice. The maker responds that it is based on your text to speech settings, but I've changed all mine to American #2 voice, and I still get the whiny woman voice.

What’s new

Tested for Android 14