The Eight Voices Of Android
The Eight Voices Of Android
You might not know but your Android phone has eight different sounding
voices you can pick from for use with Talkback or other Accessibility
services. They are free and are likely already a part of your phone.
There are voices still available for purchase on the Play Store from
third party sources. The problem is they are older & haven't been
updated in over two years. That is related to when Android started to
require apps be created in a 64 bit programming mode which left some of
these third party sources behind as they didn't or couldn't make the
move to change how their app was written.
While many of these third party text to speech engines still work on
Android 12 they are buggy and don't provide a great experience these
days as they once did.
Thankfully Google has developed what is currently called Speech Services
By Google which does just more than Text To Speech.
They have eight very clear sounding v