Look to Speak

Google Creative Lab

About this app

Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud. The app uses the front-facing camera to detect eye gaze gestures, processing the feed in real time using machine learning. When a significant gesture is detected, the app will trigger your intended action. All data is private and never leaves the device.

Ratings and reviews

For me it is not working at all either on Android phone or tablet. On my phone it says "not able to detect eyes" while on tab only the snooze part is working. It's a nice idea for disabled people but seems like a lot of work needs to be done on this app. Please give option to users to debug the eye tracking. Also, please allow app to work in landscape mode (allow app rotation) as some tabs have camera installed in landscape mode.

Clean, simple and easy to use. Potentially a very powerful tool for many users, which already serves its purpose well. Eye tracking is accurate, only had a few errors come up, and they did not repeat. Head tracking with/as an alternative to eye tracking could definitely have a place, as while the app itself is quite accurate, slight variance in users operating the app and whether the user has a device stand, may impact the overall effectiveness for some.

Amazing concept but hard to use, puts strain on eye I wish it could detect subtler eye movements like where one was looking on the screen itself and not outside of it.. But the developers probably tried it and didn't find it reliable enough One suggestion though, it would be great if the setup screen gave some visual feedback if I was set up correctly or not, I was stuck in that screen for a while thinking I would get a checkmark of some sort to say I could move to next step

What's new

The new text-free mode allows you to select a choice of emojis, symbols and photos to be spoken aloud - with no reading required. The update also includes the ability to store multiple phrasebooks and added support for Swahili.