Speech Recognition & Synthesis

The Android operating system gives users the widest range of opportunities to interact with mobile devices and benefit from it in work or entertainment moments. One of the most useful features for a wide user audience is the conversion (convert) text-to-speech, it is precisely this possibility that will be discussed in this review. So, we would like to present you the program Google Text-to-speech , which comes with the OS out of the box by default.

This mobile speech synthesizer is widely used in various fields, for example, it is indispensable for people with reduced vision or complete blindness – scoring of interface elements of a mobile gadget (Talkback mode) helps such users navigate the menus and functions, voicing all its actions. Also, this utility will be useful for people learning any language, perfectly performs the function of a translator (Google Translator), is able to play e-books (Google Play Books) and so on.

The use of a speech synthesizer, if desired, can be added to the functionality of various third-party applications, for which a special algorithm is used. It is quite simple to enable the Google Text-to-speech service for use on a specific mobile gadget, in the settings we select the “Language and input” tab, and we specify this program as the main tool for converting text to voice. The list of languages ​​supported by the service is simply huge, at the moment there are more than forty of them, but this list is constantly updated and expanded due to the introduction of more and more new dialects.