Speech Recognition & Synthesis

A handy text-to-speech reader - Turn PDFs, documents, web pages, and ebooks into spoken audio.

Speech Services by Google is an app that equips your mobile device with text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities.

-- Transform your voice into text or have the text on your screen read aloud.
-- Issue voice commands and handle daily tasks on your mobile device using Speech-to-Text.
--Listen to books or translations spoken aloud with the Text-to-Speech feature.

Empower your device with the advanced text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from Google.

Speech Services delivers speech-to-text functionality to Google and other third-party apps, converting your speech into text. For instance, it can be used by:
• Google Maps when you use voice search to find places
• The Recorder app to transcribe your on-device recordings
• The Phone app's Call Screen feature for real-time caller transcription
• Accessibility apps like Voice Access to control your device with your voice
• Dictation or keyboard apps for composing text messages by voice
• Apps with a voice search feature to quickly find shows or songs
• Language learning apps that assess your pronunciation as you practice
• …and many other applications on the Play Store

To enable Google Speech-to-Text on your Android device, navigate to Settings > Apps & notifications > Default apps > Assist App. Choose Speech Services by Google as your preferred voice input engine. Google Text-to-Speech Functionality

Speech Services enables apps to read on-screen text aloud. For example, it can be used by:
• Google Play Books to "Read Aloud" your favorite books
• Google Translate to vocalize translations so you can hear word pronunciation
• TalkBack and other accessibility apps for spoken feedback across your device
• …and many other applications on the Play Store

To use Google Text-to-Speech on your Android device, go to Settings > Languages & Input > Text-to-Speech output. Select Speech Services by Google as your preferred engine.
Note: Speech Services by Google is pre-installed on many Android devices, but you can update to the latest version here.