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Google Talkback

801,659

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USK: All ages

TalkBack is an Accessibility Service that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices.

Talkback adds spoken, audible, and vibration feedback to your device. It is a system application that was pre-installed on most devices and is updated when the accessibility service is improved.

For help with Talkback, see: https://support.google.com/talkback/

This app is only activated if you explicitly turn on Accessibility.
Steps to activate Accessibility:
1. Go to Settings
2. Select Accessibility

(Android 3.2 and earlier)
3. Enable Accessibility checkbox
4. Enable TalkBack checkbox

(Android 4.0)
3. Select TalkBack and enable the switch
4. Select back and enable explore-by-touch

(Android 4.1 and above):
3. Select TalkBack and enable the switch

Reviews

4.0

801,659 total

5 450,643

4 138,777

3 85,876

2 33,575

1 92,578

Lloyd Craig

This is app is s#&? This app is a waist of time. And its impossible to delete it,would not recommend it to anyone. Not even to a ex-girlfriend.

Nick Crowell

Please fix!!! When I am on Facebook and using talk back the app will suddenly stop working and I will have to restart my phone I am getting very tired of this please fix

jacky shawn

It turns on for no reason hate it sick of it I can't recommend talk back to any one unless they are truly blind . Talk back is very aggravating you have to tap screen twice to do whatever it is u need done but then it doesn't let you scroll and it resets over and over and it's hard to move on or out of the screen and it always talking Interupts what it is you are listening to and gets on your nerves. Every time you turn your phone off it reactivated then you have to go in turn right back off every time. FIX THIS PLEASE.

Chris Beeler

TALK BACK. I'm sorry but this is just a lazy ill-fated app in the making.... This will never be accurate or a major player in the communication realm. This should be redesigned to help those less fortunate who are blind, or have special needs!!!!! Not for lazy young people to lose the experience of actually typing or talking to a real life person and not just a slower database with no cognitive skills. Wasteful use of an app.

Lee Haswell

Can't turn it off. Help How do you turn it off or delete it?

Leone Tjader

Used once or twice for fun, however.... I can see this being very useful to those with poor, failing or no eyesight so Im giving 5 stars to support all people with eyesight issues in the hopes Google will continue to improve & update this vital user specific service application.

User reviews

Lloyd Craig March 4, 2016

This is app is s#&? This app is a waist of time. And its impossible to delete it,would not recommend it to anyone. Not even to a ex-girlfriend.

Nick Crowell March 1, 2016

Please fix!!! When I am on Facebook and using talk back the app will suddenly stop working and I will have to restart my phone I am getting very tired of this please fix

jacky shawn February 17, 2016

Chris Beeler February 17, 2016

Lee Haswell February 16, 2016

Can't turn it off. Help How do you turn it off or delete it?

Leone Tjader February 24, 2016

William Gedeon February 28, 2016

Hate hate it It's really not useful at all pls make a better app next time

Larrym Mours March 5, 2016

Great idea but I have one issue. It speaks everything I do, if I drop my notification bar it starts rambling on and won't stop until you cover the prox sensor. Or if I touch anything it speaks it. I only need it to read out web pages. How do I fix this. I can't find anything in settings. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Andrea Folkins February 21, 2016

Nightmare DITTO...Jacky Shawn. What a flipping nightmare this was!!! I was completely stuck on a screen, and no matter what I did could not close it, go back, go forward, minimize it, KILL it!!!! Almost impossible to navigate it, with its weird android voice......so particular are the actions you have to use, just to close it or exit.....

THOMAS FILIEO February 13, 2016

CRAPHOLA WHY CAN'T I DELETE THIS USELESS PIECE OF BOVINE EXCREMENT ? I DELETE IT & KEEPS RELOADING ! ! I DON'T NEED IT NOR WANT IT. WASTE OF TIME ! PLEASE MAKE IT GO AWAY . . . FOREVER . . . .

muniba aslam February 18, 2016

It's really a bin of trash .... I hated it . Just waste of ur Mbs and waste of your mobile storage to install such a carp app.... I truly hated it

Arshaδ Malik March 7, 2016

Useless untill there is no control over voice and gesture simultaneously . I want gestures to be open only BUT not tapping and VOICE system .please please please please please please please resolve this problem....please Google a HUMBLR AND HIGHLY REQUESTED AND REQUIED BY ME. and please add some more gesture features.then it will worth 100% 5-STAR....

Jacques Stassen February 29, 2016

Some great improvements in the most recent versions, well done. On my wishlist for the next version, individual control over TTS engine speed and pitch settings. Also, a very basic feature, ability to choose between character, word or no echo when using a physical keyboard.

Gurpreet Singh February 25, 2016

Freeze This version freezes sometimes along with a message on the screen it says unfortunately the TalkBack has stopped along with ok button.

Vj Siwach VII February 17, 2016

Works like a charm Using this app in front of my friends using their Nokia S60 devices is so cool haha :D

Pavan Kulkarni February 16, 2016

No seemless integration I want to be able to use this as screen reader, similar to iOS VoiceOver

Osho Mrityunjay February 25, 2016

Useless If you just want to waste your time with your phone then only use this app, Its a Headache.

DeDra Totten March 2, 2016

Get this worthless, time consuming, annoying app to uninstall PLEASE!! IT TURNS ITSELF ON preventing me from using my phone.

Melaine Gouws February 28, 2016

IHate it, it turns on for no reason. Have turned it off si many tomes andvwhen I switch on my Samsung galaxy tab it is back on again. It gets a 0 from me. Or a minus 10.

Victor Moroz February 17, 2016

Multilingual improvements Is it possible to autodetect language changes for multilingual users. People may use English and non-English text in the same application. Now if primary language is English, Text to speech doesn't read non-English (for example Cyrillic) texts.

April Jones February 19, 2016

It sucks I think it sucks, its always turning itself on every time my phone turns on/off restarting sometimes its just on & I never even touched it, it never gets anything I try to say right, I'm always going back to fix what I'm trying to say there's nothing good I have to say about this I never even installed it on my phone it was just there one day & now I can't go & uninstall it, it just won't let me uninstall it I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS AT ALL

zachary prochazka February 28, 2016

It will just randomly open will listening to music please allow us to delete this app i have never once used it

Shiva Praveen February 23, 2016

Cannot delete it It keeps updating itself. I cannot delete it, cannot disable it and cannot remove it without rooting my phone (don't want to root this one). All the other reviews say the same. How come it still has a 4.0 review?

Sourav Mishra March 4, 2016

Caution ⚠ Don't download Worst app. Made my mobile a dummy. Could neither access nor took the command properly in my phone!

Ravi Kumar March 6, 2016

Nice I've seen some negative comments for the app, but it is good actually for those who are visually challenged. If a person can see good then he/she didn't need this app.

JUAN GONZALEZ February 27, 2016

Google Talkback It is great, I only wish I had more conversational abilities

A Google User February 12, 2016

What control key? I'm on a Turbo 2! How does that work? Works flawlessly. Unbeievable moron population in the market. Hilarious! So it's Verizon? Riiiight.

Malissa Seven February 17, 2016

It very good and keeps me in touch whit friends all over thee world

Raul Saenz March 5, 2016

Yea OG Raul Saenz l love it Call me OG Raul don't hate the game already yeah

Christopher Lewis February 16, 2016

it doesn't work well. When I turn it on it uses like it's a robot.

Larisha Gibbs March 3, 2016

It's a good software but it needs more work! I am vision&hearing impaired, so I rely on &am grateful 4 apps like "Talkback"&"Google Text2Speech" when using my LG34C Smartphone. 1 issue I have with "Talkback", is that it doesn't work with some other useful apps such as the Polaris app that I use 2read emailother attachments. &I have 2turn-off "Talkback" in order 2play games like Gummy Drop, I guess because of the differences in the gesture commands. I hope the developers keep-up the good work they're doing 2make android devices more useful 4 us!

Darrell Williams February 21, 2016

This should make it more user friendly it takes a while to click the button I had a hit it like 5 times to do it anything on my device until they fix it to make it more user friendly I probably won't use this much but it will take a while to get used to if I will use it

A Google User February 16, 2016

Google feedback Feedback will read out loud your texts so you can keep your eyes on the road or you have a disability or a blindness another great tool

sarah vokes February 18, 2016

Dont need it!! If you go to the too of the page and press settings next to search (3 dots in a line). It says auto update and turn it off. Not sure if it works! im just trying it now and uninstalling it!.

Farah Mohamed February 25, 2016

Wtf You guys keep saying "omg don't use this its terrible unless your blind" bich what did you think it was for no one just gets an app that makes you double tap everything.don't say stupid stuff please😀😧😩

Wanlam Nongkhlaw February 26, 2016

Hopeless yalkback. In my samsung core2 i cannot check character by character please test before releasing the new uppdate of talkback ok. Please fix it and release soon. Do work hard. I need thee new update so so much.

ma lowe March 1, 2016

Bloody annoying! Why oh why doesn't this app work with Chrome? I can almost understand it not working with other companies apps maybe, but another of Google's apps should be no problem! This app is so annoying and temperamental.

Muhammad ibrahim But March 4, 2016

Suggestion.... Please add a language (Urdu) which is most important for Asian people !

Para Last February 18, 2016

₩asted Space & ₩asted Time•••••₩¥£€₩ ★Another Google App that can't be Uninstalled (unless u have root authority which I don't) so takes up valuable(3MB is 3MB) space!?! ☆When U start adding up all the apps (mostly google's) space that has pre-filled ur device B4 U get the chance 2 add what U 'want' ----- well, it just sucks!?! ☆ ★☆FRACK★FRACK★FRACK★FRACK☆★ BA-HUMBUG..... ☆★IMPROVEMENTS ~ Bullshit ~ We'll See..... ☆ 《《ISIS➔😖→IGNORAMUS➔👌DAESH!?!🙅CUTTHROATS!?!➔IDIOTIC→😖➔ISIS》》

Jacqueline LillyeJohnstone February 19, 2016

DON'T work for my HTC phone or computer.

What's New

This update of TalkBack has integrated a number of improvements.

It is now possible to export and import custom labels

TalkBack’s "navigation settings" can now be cycled through by pressing ALT+SHIFT+plus_sign and ALT+SHIFT+minus_sign

The speech from TalkBack can now be stopped by pressing the CONTROL key on your keyboard

Additional information

Updated

February 16, 2016

Size

Varies with device

Installs

1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000

Current Version

Varies with device

Requires Android

Varies with device

Content Rating

USK: All ages

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