With text-to-speech, your device can convert text input and play audio aloud.
Update text-to-speech settings
- Open your device settings .
- Select Accessibility [and then icon 9214174] text-to-speech output.
- Choose your preferred engine, language, speech rate and pitch.
- The default text-to-speech engine choices vary by device. Options can include Google's text-to-speech engine, the device manufacturer's engine and any third-party text-to-speech engines that you've downloaded from the Google Play Store.
Tip: To hear a short demonstration of speech synthesis, press Play.
Install voice data for another language
- Open your device settings .
- Select Install voice data.
- Choose the language that you want to install.
Get help
For more help with Android accessibility, contact the Google Disability Support team.