Speech Recognition & Synthesis

This handy text-to-speech app transforms PDFs, documents, web pages, and ebooks into spoken words.

Google's Speech Services app brings powerful text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) capabilities to your mobile device.

Key Features:

• Voice to Text & Text to Voice: Effortlessly convert spoken words into text or have on-screen text read aloud.
• Voice Commands: Control your device and complete tasks using voice commands with the STT function.
• Read Aloud: Enjoy audiobooks, translations, and more with the TTS function.

Powering Google and Other Apps:

Google's Speech-to-Text technology underpins many apps:

• Google Maps: Voice search for locations.
• Recorder App: Transcribe your recordings.
• Phone App: Real-time transcription of calls (Call Screen feature).
• Accessibility Apps (e.g., Voice Access): Voice control of your device.
• Dictation/Keyboard Apps: Dictate text messages.
• Voice Search Apps: Search for shows, songs, etc.
• Language Learning Apps: Recognize spoken language for practice.
• Many more Play Store apps.

How to Use Google Speech-to-Text:

1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Default apps > Assist App.
2. Select Speech Services by Google as your preferred voice input.

How to Use Google Text-to-Speech:

1. Go to Settings > Languages & input > Text-to-speech output.
2. Choose Speech Services by Google as your preferred engine.

Note: Speech Services by Google is often pre-installed, but you can update to the latest version.