Talk: Text to Voice

Abast Multimèdia

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About this app

With Talk, your phone will speak what you type. Make your phone say anything you want in many languages! Let your phone read the news for you!

It supports importing web pages directly from the browser to listen to them. You can also import text from any other apps.

Features:
- Text to voice
- Read web pages
- Play / Pause / Stop
- Export audio as WAV file
- Lots of languages (internet connection required for some)

Uses:
- Reading news or books
- Helpful for visually impaired people
- Helpful for speech impaired people
- Helpful for people that had wisdom teeth removed
- Fun

There's a paid version available WITHOUT ADS here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abast.talkpro

NOTE: Your phone must have a Text-to-Speech enginge for Talk to work. If it doesn't have it you can download it from Google Play. Depending on the TTS engine, some languages that appear in the app may not work.

G+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/107986392540899459664

Ratings and reviews

Very good for what it is! It's free, and the ads are not intrusive. I wish you could generate an MP3 audio of the TTS for longer text, but at least it saves the text and so far it seems to save where you left off when you have to stop and return to it later. Robotic TTS voices but there are some options that sound more natural than others. It mispronounces some common words, but it's still very useful. It would be nice if there was a way to adjust pronunciation of words.

Great app but it has serious issues with Bluetooth audio in Android Auto. The app appears to be reading aloud but no sound ever comes out of the speakers in the car. The only work around I've been able to find is to start another app's audio at the same time (such as Spotify). This seems to "wake up" this app so that its voice output can start using the Bluetooth audio connection. I would definitely give this app five stars if this bug could be fixed.

I've been looking for something like this, oddly enough, I wasn’t having much luck. All I found were apps that were too specific/couldn't read from 3rd party apps, or apps I had to pay for. Then, I came across this little beauty. It's simple & efficient. Good work. Thanks. I've ONE complaint. The read out of highlighted text will randomly stop when played from the context menu but, reads fine if typed (copy/paste, in this case) into the app itself. Aside from that, I've had no problems at all.

What’s new

- Added ability to backup and restore your notes in Settings screen
- Added settings for hiding 'Undo' and 'Clear text' buttons
- Speak with Talk text selection action should appear in more apps (including Chrome and other web browsers)
- Bug fixes