sleep inducing voices would give it negative 5 stars Sounds like a retarded robot smashing gears on a steel wall. Much preferred the UK English high quality male voice. Atleast provide the option to choose and not just disable it. Definitely switching to a different tts engine.

Needs a few features: * foo bar baz * some other feature * and another one Otherwise great app, thanks! Don't kill my newlines!

Settings adjustments have disappeared to The ability to select and change voices seems to have disappeared. Please change this back to the original way that it was. The current voices are awful.

US voice set missing male voice!! There used to be four voice set for US English. now there's only one female voice now.what happened?!!!

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I do not understand the difference between using your app or you're software on my Galaxy S4 to my Galaxy S7 I find it very hard to believe that under my profile that is saved on my Gmail account my Galaxy S4 understands and works a hell of a lot better than using ur software or app on my Galaxy S7. I was under the impression that all my information is saved and transferred because I'm using the exact same Google account. But even if it isn't saved from one device to another when I first got my Galaxy 4 it only took about a month 4 it 2 start learning my voice and my speech. Don't blame it on the new device

Definitely needs lots of improvement I'm surprised you even have this out on the market your guys technology is so poor. Ray Charles would have a better chance of coming back to life and touching up the paint job at the Sistine Chapel than Google at getting the correct word displayed half the time. Unfortunately i can't give it 0 stars otherwise i would

Unique Idea Really it is so good. it can easily read document, epubs, mobi files with the certain charecters.certain character reading is very much boring. pls solve this issues. And change the robotic voice style. Window' reading style more preferable than Android only for its robotic reading style.......Dear Admin, Pls note this carefully and solve this issues..... We are waiting to get coming changes next update...

Provides you with 1 choice of voice per language except English Uk that has a male and female. The French voice noticeably lags when used in apps. Google have the money to make this a lot better. There's no way to store voices either so if you do upgrade this you may or may not lose voices you actually like. After the latest update, Dutch didn't work until auto update was switched on.

More. Does it? OK, this is a question/review. Is there a blank page in which I can paste a block of copied text from a webpage, then hit "play" to have it read it back to me? I love the voice response when I ask my phone questions. It would be awesome if it could read webpages that don't allow me to zoom in. Tripple-tap-zoom just doesn't cut it for long articles.

John It's been a real revelation for me as I am dyslexic. Normally I would not be able or be brave enough to take part in any kind of typped conversation. Absolutely, wonderful, fantastic. Thank you very much to the inventers. It would be good if it typed what I actually said every time lol. But it's a massive step forward for me, so I don't mind.

I hate the lack of personalizing options. I would like the ability to choose between male and female voices. I would also appreciate the ability to "Name" the voice, as opposed to "OK Google". I don't want a SIri personality, I Just want to pick my own name to refer to my phone as. I also want to consistently set the default text-to-speech language REGARDLESS of my default speech-to-text language. As it is now, no matter how I have my settings, the language used is inconsistent depending on what commands I speak, or where I'm speaking them to. Sometimes, I'll get british, sometimes, american accent. Even just in the Google Now app itself. Reminders will be spoken in american english, but definitions and web results get the british accent. What gives?

It's useful only if you have compatible apps All I want to be able to do is highlight a passage of text in my chrome app and have it read out loud, but apparently it's 2016 and we can do everything but that. This needs to be fixed immediately, this has been an easy feature on iPhones for a long time.

No English Indian Accent Please For the love of God, please allow us Indian users to continue using English (US) or (UK) instead of English (India). Trust me, most of us Indians can't understand a word of what she says. Plus, with even navigation in Hindi and the terrible English (India) accent, maps become unusable. I try and limit myself from using Google voice whenever possible.

I use this to text when driving More than 98%of the time it doesn't even work and the other 2% it types out the weirdest words. Only good thing is a laugh at what it types. Can't even get it to text right when I talk slow, fast, even talking like it to a child. I've tried all settings of speed for voice and still doesn't work right

Language The app works well for what it does but there are far less languages than the Google keyboard which makes no sense. If a language is included in one google application then it should also be included in another. Arabic language add on would be nice! Thank you.

Wth I am at the nightmare stage for the challenge. Phone shuts down and when I go back in I'm asked if I want to log in with my regular ID info. I said yes and now all my data is gone. Everything ! All my characters. Please give me back my profile and characters! This sucks! I know there's something wrong because not eve the challenge is on the screen. Clearly a glitch. Please fix.

Response is slow There is lag in response. I use an AI software (Utter! by Brian Randall, currently still in Beta version) and your recent update of Google Text-To-Speech is giving me a very long silence before answering my voice command. Please fix it. Oh... Please include a feature where I can customize several words to be spoken the way I want which are not familiar to Google Text-To-Speech, like: customizing names and phrases so that they are pronounced the way I want them to be pronounced. Thank you for your attention.

Hate it sums it up I speak clearly and it leaves out whole sentences. This app makes SERIOUS errors when it does manage to actually type words. You must check your message and fix ALL THE ERRORS before sending it. USELESS. By the time I fix the errors and fill in the sjipped sentence I may as well have typed it in myself. LIKE I WAS FORCED TO DO NOW.

Does not work well. Google voice to text is basically a piece of garbage. So is the case on my HTC 612 smart phone, anyway. (Not sure if it's the phone that's the piece of garbage?) Not only does it overcorrect what it thinks are Mistakes by making even more mistakes, speaking for myself I know I am saying something correctly. It refuses to correct them and sometimes requires three Taps of the screen to correct. Piece of garbage!!!!!

Used to work I have had Google Now and Text-to-Speech Output for over a year now. Since around May, Google gives no TTS on my searches (the silent treatment). I have tried multiple fixes. I'm not Android illiterate neither; I've fixed this issue for many of my friends before my unfixable issue arose. I'm dependent on the speech synthesis output as my hands are often full. Please fix this silent treatment issue; TTS output is imperative to my work. Until this is fixed, I cannot be satisfied with Google.

Broken. No way to test - Not enough control. Unreliable No way to adjust the volume, and somehow on my phone the TTS volume keeps setting itself very low. When it works it's great, but it only works 20% of the time. Edit. Stopped working completely now.

Female US only option 😞 Why is the only option available (which actually works) US ENGLISH: FEMALE?? No "male" option, and nothing else works at all; ENGLISH: UK/AUS/INDIA options SAY they're available/downloaded/fully supported... yet all completely silent?? Why does nothing work? Any plans to fix this?? Obviously not just me having this problem....

One basic thing missing The best voice on the app is the English US Female voice. But that one is very harsh tinny and high pitched so ear fatigue starts to set in quickly. Adjustment of the pitch does little help, the voice merely develops vocal fry at low pitches. Make the voice work better at low pitches and the app should be fine. And, please shift some attention to the betterment of other voices as well.

Wanna drive? Don't text! It's the easiest way to text while driving. Although everyone who's anyone knows your not suppose to use the phone while driving let alone text!! So yeah I've found myself using this voice text more than I ever dreamed I would, Now that I'm back behind the wheel that is. Try it out, bet you'll never use ur fingers again... while driving that is

Random capitalizations. Homonyms not in chooser. Spells out punctuation. 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.

Liked it until... (On a Samsung gs-5active) Shopped a foreign site for 15w audio speakers, and found no translation help whatsoever, no matter where I tapped. So claims of aid within a mobile internet browser are flatly unfounded. Sorely disappointed. And yes, I did tap the screen menu in the upper right corner. "BOO" on you, programmers!

Why hold back? Great app, probably far from perfect, but great nonetheless. However, why can we simply not type text into Google Docs or Keep, and have it read aloud? It works in a number of other apps so why not these?

Disappointed! What has happened to speech to text I don't know what has happened but it changes my words or ands words like I changed speaking my husband's as Kenneth and it added Cole as I sent it. I speak clearly and enunciate and it's frustrating to keep going back deleting and spelling words, I'll try 4 or 5 times to say the word in different ways and it still won't put it right like my husband's name is Ken and it writes can every time or 10. I don't have an accent or speak in slang. Is there some way to make this more accurate? 😠I need this to work.

Dissapointing Switched from iOS to Android and I'm disappointed to find this as Google's equivalent of Text-to-Speech... It is very limited feature lacking. I hope that Samsung will address the issue eith their TouchWizz in the next iteration.

This app has been out a long time, yet it still sucks This app gets worse with each new release. Please bring back the ability to turn off autocorrect -- it does not work. The app records the words I say exactly then changes them to nonsense words that make no sense in context. After all these years this app should be significantly better, but it is beyond frustrating to use still. What a bad user experience this app delivers. This app by itself makes me want to switch to Apple products.

Crash, fail It basically fails to function under android 6.01, not even rooted. They are asking amazing amount of permissions and they sure get these crash reports. They just don't care. I feel sorry for the disabled as eSpeak didn't update and Ivona is gone.

On/off switch needed for play books. Need to be able to choose which apps you want to use this with. Ludicrously and unnecessarily complicated to use. Should have an option to use with some but not all apps. For example, text reader for Google play books only and a simple 'on/off' switch in play books. Could be a 5 star app but useless as is.

Terrible now The first version of the software is still the best. It capitalizes random words in sentences. Does speech recognition is awful. See? I said the intro does. Uline I left this entire review with the app.

Keeps getting better The first iterations were laughable, but it is becoming a very powerful tool for handsfree phone operation. I have a habit of mumbling, but it still successfully interprets. Punctuation and deleting words by verbal command is a bit awkward, but a learnable habit. I'd like to see an audio based review option for messaging, so that I can hear what the interpretation of my text msg is before I send it.

Google Apps Generally Always gives the the error "Cannot update. Insufficient space to update". I am just about down to NOTHING BUT GOOGLE APPS, and most of them I NEVER USE. How about an uninstall ability for preloaded crap Google apps I NEVER USE, but take up scads of memory and drive space? OH, I GUESS YOU WOULD LOSE SOME ABILITY TO SPY OM MY EVERY MOVE. THANKS FOR NOTHING.