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

Speech recognition is the name of the app, but it doesn't recognize when I stop talking and background television noise comes on the phone. it enters punctuations, like periods, and question marks in the middle of a sentence. this app is absolutely terrible. i had to edit this response. and it's not even capitalizing the beginning of a sentence.

I'm surprised it has a 4.0 rating! It is so embarrassing when I have an important message to be sent to an upper mgmt and the message comes out so unbelievably screwed up and not even close to what I said! I speak slowly and pronounce each word precisely, yet 9 out of 10 times it gets it wrong, also when I say, exclamation mark or period, it spells the word out instead of using ! . So I have learned when it's important to just type it out. Kind of defeats the purpose of having "speech to text"

this used to be a reasonable app but like many of the reviews say it is getting worse with each and every use. there are many times where the text on the screen is correct after I speak it and then the app or tool changes the text to be something that I never said. text to speech is nothing new this should be very easily updated and coded as this ability has been around decades if not longer.