Speech Recognition & Synthesis

Google LLC

About this app

Power your device with the magic of Google’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology. Google Speech-to-Text functionality
Speech Recognition provides speech-to-text functionality to Google and other third party apps to convert what you say to text. For example, it can be used by:
• Google Maps when you use your voice to search places
• Recorder App to transcribe your recordings on device
• Phone App Call Screen feature to get a real-time transcription of your caller
• Accessibility apps like Voice Access for operating your device through voice
• Dictation or keyboard apps you might use to dictate text messages through voice
• Apps that contain a search by voice feature so that you can quickly search for your favorite shows or songs
• Language learning apps that recognize what you say as you practice a new language
• …and many other applications in Play Store
To use Google Speech-to-Text functionality on your Android device, go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Default apps > Assist App. Select Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google as your preferred voice input engine.
Google Text-to-Speech functionality
Speech Services powers applications to read the text on your screen aloud. For example, it can be used by:
• Google Play Books to “Read Aloud” your favorite book
• Google Translate to speak translations aloud so you can hear the pronunciation of a word
• Talkback and accessibility applications for spoken feedback across your device
• …and many other applications in Play Store
To use Google Text-to-Speech functionality on your Android device, go to Settings > Languages & Input > Text-to-Speech output. Select Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google as your preferred engine.
Note, on many Android devices, Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google is already available, but you can update to the latest version here.

Ratings and reviews

When I talk to my phone, there are so many stupid errors including random capitalizations that all I can say is that it's getting worse all the time and apparently no one can figure out why. I wish there was some better way besides pecking with my thumbs or swiping, because you would expect by now, 2025, you could dictate a simple sentence to your phone and it would appear correctly. Google. Hello.

Google speech to text is obnoxious. It capitalizes random letters in a sentence for no reason at all. This is an extremely common issue. leaving feedback to Google has not helped. Do you know how ANNOYING it is to see the words appear on the screen correctly,and then suddenly shift to a different word when it got it right the first time? Or when the little blue microphone turns off when you're not done? Or when you say question mark and it types the word, not the symbol?PLEASE FIX BASIC ISSUES😫

Haven't tried this newest version, but I use speech-to-text all the time, for years and it seems to consistently get worse every year. I really want to like this, but it does very weird things with punctuation, breaks sentences up randomly not following any grammatical rules. Words are very often coming out incorrectly and sentences are frequently butchered. I'm holding out hope that one day this will improve

What's new

Your app has a new name: “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google”. The Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google app not only provides text-to-speech but also empowers applications with speech-to-text functionality to convert your voice to text. Read more in the “About this app” section.