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Tagged with tts or text-to-speech
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How to make TalkBack read the spelling of Chinese characters in terms of the names of the Chinese character components
When a blind user is using TalkBack to listen to text, they may want to figure out the actual spelling of the text.
Can TalkBack be used to spell a Chinese character or stream of Chinese characters in ...
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Multi-language support in Android text-to-speech settings
I think it would be nice if in the text-to-speech settings you could specify a cascading set of languages, with dictionaries, associated with each language, intrinsic in the language selection.
When, ...
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Translating speech offline
Is it possible to use Google speech recognition in the Google Translate application for Android while offline? clarified that Google Translate cannot translate voice offline. Are there any other ...
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How to have app names be spoken aloud on a new notification?
How can app names be spoken aloud on a new notification? For example: if I receive an email, I'd like to hear the word "Gmail" spoken aloud.
I could use TalkBack for this, but then the ...
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Read websites text on Chrome/Firefox/Edge mobile
Is there any way (e.g. extension) for text reading (text-to-speech) from websites through mobile browsers Chrome/Firefox/Edge, etc.? I'm at the Android latest.
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How to download and set high-quality voices in Android text-to-speech in MIUI 14?
The option to download and set high-quality voices in Android text-to-speech is not available in MIUI 14. Is there a way to do so?
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Reading a text in two voices
Is there a way to read aloud a text in two voices automatically?
For example, male voice for questions and female voice for answers.
Or, even paragraphs with one accent and odd paragraphs with a ...
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Installing another TTS language for Speech Services by Google on Moto G22 with Android 12 (OSMand navigation)
I have a Moto g22 with Android 12 and am trying to get German language navigation in OSMand. I have set the language for voice prompts to German in OSMand (for the relevant profile: Configure Profile ...
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Is there any app that can accept incoming calls and play a voice message using Text To Speech?
I used to use an app that could do exactly that. When a person would call, the app would accept the call, enable the loudspeaker, and play a voice message aloud using text-to-speech. Meaning, the app ...
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How to read web page aloud on Android 13
In earlier versions of Android, I could open a web page in Chrome and ask, "Hey Google, read this aloud" and it would read the web page aloud. It would read the entire web page (doing a ...
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Control playback using headset media buttons when using Android Select to Speak functionality
What I ideally want to achieve: TTS for any text I see on my phone, with the user experience similar to my podcast app.
My current approach: Use Android Select to Speak functionality.
This works to ...
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Android, TalkBack, support for blind users with short attention span
I would like to know what Android does to support blind Android users with sort attention span.
One of the problems with these users, is, that while the user interface talks, the sound of the reading ...
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Google won't read web pages on my Android 8.1.0 phone
When I bring up a web page on Google assistant & say
"Hey (or Ok) Google read it" nothing happens, & in Google Go, the play button triangle is greyed out.
These apps have permission ...
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Text to speech on Android
I went to the Play store to search for a text to speech app. To my surprise, it said I already had one: Google Text To Speech, and that it was probably already on. Sure enough, in settings, there it ...
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Default text-to-speech (TTS) engine in LineageOS 16.0?
I have recently updated my OnePlus One to LineageOS 16.0 and noticed that there does not seem to be any TTS provider included anymore. In previous versions (LineageOS 15), there used to be Pico TTS as ...
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On Android 7, when using a TTS engine, would power use show for the engine itself or the app using it?
For example, would power use be attributed to a navigation app or Pico?
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Change Assistant Language Without Changing Locale on Oreo
I am in the United States, but I would like it if my assistant and navigation voice had an Australian accent. On Oreo, the only way to do this seems to be to change the system language to English(...
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How to control how long Google Assistant keeps listening when there is silence?
I'm using Google Assistant to take notes on my phone via my bluetooth headset. However, when I'm taking a note, if I don't talk for about 1.5 seconds, it immediately asks me if I want to save the ...
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How can I turn on text to speech in Android?
I'm not an Android user and I'm stumped. I've got a friend who wants to turn on text-to-speech on his new phone.
His old phone has a "speech" icon on the screen. When he taps that and then taps text, ...
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Use phone interactively with TTS
I am speech impaired and trying to find a way to use my phone using TTS and have an active conversation without having to go through a 3rd-party. There are plenty of apps for the TTS, but I have not ...
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Syncronizing audio and ebook?
So the actual problem that I'm trying to solve is to read books via TTS on my phone and also read the same book as text at the same place.
Every ebook reader I've tried that does this sucks in ...
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Android Auto language tied to phone?
I have a Nexus 6P and just got a car with android auto, i use my phone and most of my things with English language (i'm used to English for tech) even tho i live in a Spanish speaking country.
Now ...
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How to use my voice instead of default voice in text-to-speech Android?
I want to use my voice instead of default voice for the text-to-speech in Android. Any idea?
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No Text to Speech Settings in ICS
I have a Xolo A500 phone running a custom ICS 4.0.4 ROM. I have installed some TTS apps like Google TTS and SVOX but I am unable to select either of them. There are no TTS settings inside Settings.
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TTS versus TalkBack
What is the difference between Text-to-Speech and TalkBack and Google Talk? (also, I am unable to open the TalkBack tutorial on my Samsung Galaxy SIII Neo Android 4.4.2 (it just crashes the Settings ...
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Listen to text messages
Can somebody help with how can I listen to text messages on my phone? One of my friend using this same feature now I want to know how it works. Is there any way I can listen to my texts?
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TTS speech from console
Can I synthesize arbitrary text strings with TTS from the Android's console?
To give the idea, on Debian I would do:
festival --tts <(echo Buongiorno signore)
The TTS engine needs to be always ...
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How to use text-to-speech to read out text on Google Books
I would like to know the exact steps a visually impaired or blind person would take to
Download a book called "X" from the Google Play store
Enable text-to-speech for their language (e.g. Zulu) on ...
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How to scroll screen when using text-to-speech accessibility?
Under normal circumstances a swipe will cause controls in the Android UI to scroll. Such as swiping the home screen will get to the next screen. Swiping a list will scroll the list. The swiping ...
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Change Navigation Language Google Maps
I got a new OnePlus One recently and have noticed that the Google Maps Navigation Voice is in English (India) ( I bought the phone in India). This is very annoying and refuses to change no matter how ...
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Personal google play books, how to make them voice-readable?
I am trying to load a couple of personal ebooks on my google play account, so that they are readable by google play books. The books are DRM-free, also.
Is there any way, to make them voice-readable? ...
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Text to speech: Unable to switch to UK English
My phone (Fairphone) does not have the 'English (UK)' locale, only the US one. I recently discovered how to download custom voices for Google text-to-speech ('Install voice data' from settings) and ...
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Note 4 - won't stop announcing alarm title
When an alarm goes off, my brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will speak the title of the alarm and then speak the current time.
How the heck do I disable this?
It does not speak any other things.
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tts or some other notification sounds not playing at right time when screen is off
tts stops reading the next paragraph when screen is off , notification sounds from some apps don't play while screen is off.
But when I turn on the screen it starts playing again, even if I don't ...
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Add languages to Anki the text-to-speech?
On AnkiDroid, the only TTS language I can add is "English". I'd like to have Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and French, as well. How can I get these languages to load up?
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How to enable TalkBack without accessibility navigation?
I have all the Google text-to-speech software installed, but the "Read Aloud" option is not enabled in Google Play Books for a book I bought from Google Play.
If I turn on the TalkBack feature then ...
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How to dismiss an anoying "Queued" notification in android 4.4?
Since this morning there is a new notification in my notification bar. The title is "Queue" and there is a progress bar under it that never stops moving. The only information that I see is this text ...
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PDF (not text) to Speech
I need a TTS program to read my PDF files. I tried several programs, but all convert PDF to raw text, then read it. My PDF files have lots of pictures and designs, and I need to look at the PDF file ...
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Installing Google text-to-speech hd voices on sd card
I use the Google text-to-speech engine and it has the option to download high quality voices. Those are about 250 mB per file, and i barely have any internal memory left after i download them. Is ...
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Issue with woman's voice reading out the txt on my AT&T LG2
Someone help me, please?! I've got that obnoxious woman from the navigation app as a personal announcer of everything I view online. Idk what setting I accidentally activated or app I downloaded ...
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How can I get the device to read back to me what I type?
I'm looking for something that would read back to me the words I typed in as I'm typing. I'm using Bluetooth keyboard.
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AnkiDroid: Reset TTS language of a single deck
I am not able to find the correct way to reset the TTS language of just one deck (as opposed to resetting all TTS assignments by using Menu > Preferences > General > Reset).
I have seen this question, ...
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Remove "Folder Open" "Folder closed" announcements without disabling Accessiblity
I have a Galaxy S3 4G. I also have a Pebble watch.
The Pebble watch uses the Accessibility service in order to project messages etc to your wrist. Unfortunately, this means certain other "...
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Text to speech erratic after android 4.3 update
I use the app AnkiDroid on my HTC One to learn Italian. It has a text to speech option which, when enabled, reads the text on the flashcards aloud. However, after updating to Android 4.3, this ...
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Google Now has no speech on Galaxy Note 3
I have a Galaxy Note 3, and Google Now has no speech.
The "Google Search" app is up to date from the Play Store.
All of my volumes are set to maximum.
I have gone into Google Now settings and ...
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Text-to-Speech Going too fast
I have recently installed this app into my Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The speed at which words are being spoken by this system is too high for me to grasp. Also,...
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"No language is installed in your default TTS Engine"? What should I do?
I have just installed a pdf reader in my Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone which comes with android 2.3 Gingerbread. This pdf reader has a text to speech option, but I am not able to use it and getting ...
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Navigation Voice is not changing
Hi I have got Samsung Galaxy S4 Active.
I have downloaded Samsung's high quality British English TTS engine and set it as "Preferred TTS engine" From Settings -> MyDevice -> Accessibility -> Text-to-...
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Voice of turn by turn navigation alternating between male and female
Sometimes the voice will be the female voice of Google text-to-speech and sometimes it will be the one from SVOX TTS, which is a different one. What should be causing them to alternate and how can I ...
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Text To speech feature on selected text
I wonder if there is ability to replicate this feature from iOS :
In iOS you can turn on Accessibility function that add the "Speak" button to the "selection menu". And if you click, it would turn ...
