Google Text-to-speech

- April 10, 2017

Everyone

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Description

Google Text-to-speech powers applications to read the text on your screen aloud. For example, it can be used by:
• Google Play Books to 'Read Aloud' your favourite book
• Google Translate to speak translations aloud so that 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 on your Android device, go to Settings > Language & Input > Text-to-speech output. Select Google Text-to-speech Engine as your preferred engine. Note, on many Android devices, Google Text-to-speech is already turned on, but you can update to the latest version here.

Supported languages: Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (India), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin (China), Mandarin (Taiwan), Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Sinhala, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (United States), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Reviews

4.1

983,371 total

5 582,656

4 160,258

3 93,625

2 34,745

1 112,087

Joseph Meeks

Honestly I'll give the app 4 stars. It's great and very convenient to use. But even as I voice to text this out I've have to think about all the times that I've had to go back and manually correct anything that I have voice to text it out because of its swapping of words that I did not actually say. Which sometimes leads to messages taking even longer to type out rather than just me actually typing them out.

Caitlin Compton

Ever since the most recent android update my voice to text does not work. It will work for a brief period after I restart my phone but not more than a few minutes. Same with my outbound phone calls which I know isn't this apps problem but just want to make some one aware of issues with update

Caspar Helmer

• Added support for Bangla (India), Czech, Khmer, Nepali, Sinhala and Ukrainian. • Number processing can now be turned off in settings. This produces a more literal pronunciation of the text. For example 09/10/2017 will be pronounced as oh nine slash ten... Only available for our English voices. • Intonation control is now available for more voices. • Various other improvements to our voices. - 3.10.10: not sure what this latest update delivers as there are no version numbers in What's New: " • Alternative voice variations now available on every device. • Added support to amplify speech volume over other audio. • Extended support for emoji verbalisation in Chinese, Dutch, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. • Bug fixes. " On HTC One [m7] 4g Vodafone, Android 5.0.2, Smart Launcher 3.24.19F(beta)

Irene Warker

I've seen one of my former Godnephews tried the advice. And it does work. I've also downloaded because I never know when I may in needed it in an situations that would accured. In non-seen areas. Temporary til back to normal. Within my lifestyle. Awesome idea to the Google Corporation. For creating as such an app.👸👼🌏🌎🌍🌈❤📖🙏👍👍👍👍👍

Thomas G

Love it! This is one of my favourite Google Apps. I use it on a daily basis, mainly because it integrates with so many other apps that require TTS and because of it, I do not need to use any data for any of the text-to-speach requirements. I'm giving this a 5 because I have been a bit harsh on other Google Apps but this works really well for me. Thank you Google!

Love that I can just say "OK Google" and the app starts, even with my phone locked. Very easy to use, understands what you say, & it talks back with your answer & relevant search info. Everyone needs this app, especially this day & age with so many accidents caused by people texting while driving

User reviews

Joseph Meeks April 11, 2017

Caitlin Compton May 7, 2017

Caspar Helmer April 11, 2017

Irene Warker April 30, 2017

Thomas G May 30, 2017

April 6, 2017

tyson luisi May 18, 2017

Before this most recent update this program was working flawlessly as intended. However until said update my voice detection cuts off mid sentence quite abruptly. Rendering this feature completely unusable. For a short example... forget about long-winded sentences. I will only say 7 words and it will only get about 2 or 3 of those words before I realized that it had stopped detecting my voice when speaking clearly.

Taylor Engle June 14, 2017

So many negative reviews thinking this is "voice to text" when the app is literally called "text to speech." That being said, at least 80% of the time the voice sounds like a real person when using maps or Google now/assistant, but sometimes when driving it will read an instruction in a really weird voice that throws off the experience. I'm not sure what causes this, and I only have one voice selected. Otherwise a great feature to have!

Briana Giselle Jauregui May 31, 2017

Thank you Caitlin Compton!!!! I was calling out earlier and my screen wouldn't come back on immediately ... Like I thought my phone was shutting down. Yes to everything you said. I knew I shouldn't have updated this freaking thing. Also, my voice recognition on Google is totally not functioning SINCE I updated. Stupid. Annoying. Broken. I'm

May 28, 2017

selecting text to have it read to you works, but it is nowhere near as good as Apple's swiping down with two fingers trick. I didn't even realize the black square was a stop button, so clearly this is some kind of beta feature... And now it waits about 15 seconds before speaking.

Carlos Rodriguez June 8, 2017

Simply doesn't work. Even after installing voices it reverts back to the dull system voice. And on other apps no option appears for using text to speech. Perhaps time to sell 6p in general...Disappointment

Thomas Carr May 18, 2017

This is a waste of a perfectly good tts system. Try simply pulling up a long article or website with text and have the text read by this app. You can't! The read selected text feature will only do one paragraph at a time. It is sad when Android won't even make the slightest effort to compete with iOS. 😢

the slim bin April 22, 2017

It was good for the applications it was optimised for but I think it should be able to work in any application with text the device can recognise would really help with my dyslexia because I find it hard to concentrate on reading for a while so just one book I've been trying to reed on my phone for a year but it would really help if I could use it in that that app

Derek Wade April 24, 2017

Voice to text is both a very effective means of texting on the go, and also a huge pain in the butt. For one thing, I'm getting sick of it spelling out punctuation. There is no need to write the word, "comma". Second if a word has homonyms, such as "their", every single one of those homonyms should show up in the Chooser to allow you to select the correct one. This is rarely the case. Voice to text also occasionally randomly Capitalizes Words for no Reason. This is frustrating and irritating. It's been months. Fix these bugs. 4/24/17

Tim Guernsey April 18, 2017

Iv had THIS "State Of The Art" phone That Will Do ANYTHING & More for . . . 2 Years , , , , , maybe 3 Years - but anyway- iv had This phone for a Long time & STILL Havnt used This App, I Havnt Even Tap'd on it to see what it's about. However, I'm assuming it's prity close to wat the Name of the App is. Perhaps 1 day I will get more curious & check it out BEFORE I accidentally drop my phone in the toilet like my previous Hand Held Cellular device from wich I make calls & txts from. Good Luck Developer's

George Yann May 26, 2017

In the meantime the Google search app is supporting the Greek language, Google tts though is still acting like it sounds like Greek to it. Maybe the developers of the two apps should contact each other and figure something out. Also I would like to have my system in English but navigation in Greek, is there a reason why I cannot be able to do that?

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CăşTró ƓƛMЄƦ May 7, 2017

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS GOOGLE TEXT TO SPEECH DOESN'T support Arabic language, although there are a lot of Android system users in the Arab world. HOPELY, Arabic support even the largest possible number of the Android system USERS benefit

Levi Karkiainen April 16, 2017

It is both wonderful and absolutely horrible at the same time. It saves me a lots and lots of time however it can also misunderstand the most basic and simple of words. I have said something as simple as "hello" and it types down something as complex and off-the-wall as " blood for the blood God hail Satan" But that part goes away when you bathe your phone and holy water. Still this app is worth getting just really really annoying

Ellichu thepikachu April 14, 2017

It can't understand a thing I say at all. Make it understand a Scottish, English, American etc. accents. Or most people won't be able to use it. Why did this junk come with my phone? It. Doesn't. Work. It is not like I can't just get used to it, it can't understand me. I prefer using keyboards, even SwiftKey. That's why I am using SwiftKey. You can use it. Unlike this crap of an app. Delete it or fix it. Your choice. And add more words to it! Jesus Christ I could spend all Day typing this! I'm going to go now. Bye!

That tornado's carrying a car May 3, 2017

Gonna give it 3 stars because the description is very vague. I mean at least tell us that it doesn't work with pdf files...and if it does, at least make the app more simple rather than confusing.... Another thing, I dislike the fact that the app icon is hidden.

Mark Gwathmey April 10, 2017

I think this program is very great. Considering I have a TBI from the war. I have a problem reading and put in my thoughts on the paper this program, helps me express my thoughts. So I can get them out quicker Vice trying to type it or going back and deleting what I'm trying to type. This program is unexceptional gift to me words cannot explain how I feel when I can communicate my thoughts without typing.

Mario V. April 29, 2017

THIS STUPID THING ACTIVATES ON ITS OWN WHENEVER I CONNECT MY EARBUDS TO MY PHONE!!! MY EARBUDS ARE FUN AND OUT OF NOWHERE THE APP ACTIVATES!!! FIX THIS BECAUSE IT'S GETTING ANNOYING AND IT EVEN MAKES ME SKIPS SONGS IN SPOTIFY WITHOUT MY CONSENT!!!

Than Htun Oo April 8, 2017

Hey,Miss Google!Why don't you read me Czar VI (the Sixth)and Elizabeth II(the Second) correctly?No No. but Number.You should learn how to pronounce Buddhist terms correctly,that is,Pali and Sanskrit.Your German accent is sexy!

William Rogers May 26, 2017

Can't figure out how to make it work. All the comments I see here are on speech to text. I want this to read my emails aloud to me while I'm driving. Do I have the wrong app?

Bobby L June 11, 2017

You should have us template our voice so that it can recognize how we speak and enunciate. So far this app has been a bit of a joke but it works with everything else I have so I use it. Contact me and I'll go over some ideas with you.

Aminah Binthe Mahmood June 12, 2017

A while back, I couldn't bear to have Google TTS read my books to me. It sounded as if a robot was magically transported from the science fiction universe to next to me and was talking to me. Now? There is so much difference to the quality of the UK voices that it's one of most natural TTS voices in the Play Store. I excluded one star for more improvement, but if you any doubts on the quality, don't hesitate.

Lada Zaria May 9, 2017

It works well is sophisticated and pronounces very well. BUT it can't be muted or turn volume down while its reading a long message, and it doesn't understand phone numbers so it reads them as her large numbers

Rishabh Malhotra April 7, 2017

It is needed to be more improved! As it works well but in most cases it fails.... Nd whn it is failed nd we are in hurry of smething.. It is irritating that time!

Sean Schisler April 13, 2017

Newest update is bug. Doesn't work at all. Thanks for braking something that didn't need to be fix. Great job of fbombing something up. 👍👍

Stuart Goldstein April 20, 2017

All of a sudden when I say the word. All the letters come up until the end of the sentence period that I want. You see it here?

June 8, 2017

Mike, Moto e running 6, Moto e running 5.1 This works well for me, I have always like the voice, but it has improved recently. Very nice, useful app. My only complaint with Google is that they allow manufactures to prevent users from deleting pre installed apps. My old phone has 15 disabled apps on it, that's 181.2mb of wasted space. The only way to delete them is to root the phone. Google, please develop an app with temporary root access to delete so called system apps. The android user experience is ruined by bloatware.

April 11, 2017

I'm having same PROBLEM as others. Despite Auto Update being set to off, it's trying to update something with tag 'Female for English'. Thought I had a virus, when it kicked off.

Preeti Saini May 2, 2017

Can u pls help me??? After update i see one notification on my top screen which is waiting for WiFi I m not using WiFi so how I fix this problem

Deborah Lim June 16, 2017

I used to love using Messenger, but now with the update from 2 days ago it is a colossal pain in the ass. Text to speech -you have to hit the button like 4 times and it keeps going back and forth, between a tiny little screen of the preview and the actual message. While I appreciate the extra gifs and stickers they are not worth the cumbersome and awkwardness of using the app to send a message

April 20, 2017

This app is great when I have a migraine. It makes things so much easier to communicate. However, I'm so sick of having to go back and correct things. The biggest issue, is it spelling out punctuation. It's so frustrating!! This aspect really needs work, please.

irshad ahmad April 10, 2017

I am looking forward for pashto and urdu language.you people dont forget that these two languages are common maternal languages of two nations worldwide. I feel it a discrimination. Hopefully in next update you people will consider it. With many thanks

Angels Corrosion June 9, 2017

Does not always print what I say. It assumes what I am saying and prints that. This app sucks it needs to be improved because it does not understand words that I say instead it prints what it wants. It's stupid. It is not a smart app.

Nuclear Gamer April 22, 2017

I can't open the app to even use it. Completely worthless... I would give it zero stars if there were an option to do so

Angela McGuire June 2, 2017

Not working properly with recent update. I have to restart my phone to get it to work and even then, it only works sometimes.

What's New

• Added support for Bangla (India), Czech, Khmer, Nepali, Sinhala and Ukrainian.

• Number processing can now be turned off in settings. This produces a more literal pronunciation of the text. For example 09/10/2017 will be pronounced as oh nine slash ten... Only available for our English voices.

• Intonation control is now available for more voices.

• Various other improvements to our voices.

Additional information

Updated

April 10, 2017

Size

Varies with device

Installs

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

Current Version

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Requires Android

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Content Rating

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