Google Text to Speech: Read Texts on Your Screen Aloud

Tired of reading texts on your screen? Let Google Text to Speech read it for you then.

Reading an e-book or PDF document on your gadget for hours can be very tiring for your eyes. This can affect your eyes’ health, especially when you do it pretty often. You’ll probably end up having myopia. Or, it’s getting worse if you already have it.

Resting your eyes and getting your documents to read at the same time is not something impossible to do. How to do it? Just convert the texts on your screen into audio with Google Text to Speech. The app will read it all for you automatically. It’s nice to have a virtual assistant, isn’t it?

Google Text to Speech

Google Text to Speech will read any kind of text on your screens, such as PDFs, e-books, websites, plain texts, and any other document files. It uses a smart Google AI technology that converts the text on your screen into audio.

It is by far the best free text to speech software that you can have. It has clean and clear audio that sounds natural. Some spoken languages even have nearly local accent. However, some other languages still sound like a robot. But, it is great for a free text to speech app.

What languages does Google Text to Speech support?

The application supports various languages. In fact, it provides more than 40 languages that you can choose.

Below are some of the supported languages:

• Bangla (Bangladesh)
• Bangla (India)
• Cantonese (Hong Kong)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (Australia)
• English (India)
• English (United Kingdom)
• English (United States)
• Estonian
• Filipino
• Finnish
• French (Canadian)
• French (France)
• German
• Greek
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Javanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Mandarin (China)
• Mandarin (Taiwan)
• Nepali
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Sinhala
• Slovak
• Spanish (Spain)
• Spanish (United States)
• Sundanese
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

What can Google Text to Speech do for you?

Reading stories or documents on your screen aloud is not the only thing this app can do for you. Here are other tasks that you can ask to Google Text to Speech:

1. Learn new languages. You can use it to read a word from the language that you are learning. By then, you can hear the correct pronunciation of a word and learn how to speak it.
2. TalkBack allows you to give spoken feedback across the devices. The Google AI is smart enough to understand your spoken response as long as you speak clearly.

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How to Activate Google Text to Speech

The Google Text to Speech is available on Android devices by default. But it’s not running automatically. To start using it, you must activate it in the first place.