Text-to-speech output

With text-to-speech, your device can convert text input and play audio aloud.

Update text-to-speech settings

  1. Open your device Settings .
  2. Select Accessibility and then Text-to-speech output.
  3. 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

  1. Open your device Settings .
  2. Select Install voice data.
  3. Choose the language that you want to install.

Get more help

For more Accessibility help, contact the Disability Support team.