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 icon 9214174] 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 help

For more help with Android accessibility, contact the Google Disability Support team.