A smart way to reduce screen time is to make your Android phone read text aloud. This can also come in handy when you need to consult recipes while cooking or listen to the news while completing your morning chores.
Of course, you wouldn’t want to do that and annoy others. In this post, we will talk about the two best ways you can make Android read your text. So check them out.
1. Ask Google Assistant to read text aloud
Google Assistant lives up to its name when you want it to read aloud web pages, text messages, documents, etc. Of course, you need to make sure you have Google Assistant enabled on your phone. If you’ve never used it on your Android, here’s how to set it up.
Turn on Google Assistant
Step 1: Open the Google app on your phone. Tap your profile picture in the top right corner and select Settings.
Step 2: Tap Google Assistant.
Step 3: Scroll down to tap General and enable the toggle for Google Assistant from the following menu.
Step 4: Return to the Google Assistant settings page and tap ‘Ok Google & Voice Match.’ Then enable the toggle for ‘OK Google’.
Ask Google Assistant to read
After you turn on the Google Assistant on your phone, you can ask the Google Assistant to read your screen aloud. To try it out, open a website on your phone. Then summon the Google Assistant with the wake words ‘Ok Google’ or ‘OK Google’. When the Google Assistant appears, say “Read it” or “Read this page”.
The Google Assistant will open the web page in a custom browser view and start reading it aloud. At the bottom you will see a few media controls for play/pause and forward or backward. You can also change the playback speed.
Additionally, the Google Assistant lets you choose from a variety of voices. To access them, tap the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner and select Speak aloud. Then scroll through the available voices to choose the one you like.
If the web page you’re reading isn’t in your native language, the Google Assistant can also read it in another language. To hear a translated version of the article, tap the three-dot menu icon in the top right corner and select Translations. Select your preferred language and the Google Assistant will start reading the web page in the specified language.
You can set the Google Assistant to read aloud articles from the Google app, Google Chrome, and the Google News app. Since this feature is primarily designed to read web pages, it doesn’t work well with third-party apps. If you can ask the Google Assistant to read your WhatsApp messages or tweets from the Twitter app, you can’t go forward or backward, change your voice, or enable translation directly in those apps.
2. Use Android’s Select-to-Speak Function
Select to speak is an accessibility feature on Android that you can use to help your phone read text aloud. This feature is part of the Android Accessibility Kit, available for phones running Android 6.0 or later. Here’s how you can enable it.
Enable Select to Speak on Android
Step 1: Open the Settings app on your phone and scroll down to tap Accessibility.
Step 2: Go to Installed Apps and touch Select to Speak from the following menu.
If you don’t see Select to Speak, you’ll need to download the latest version of Android Accessibility Kit from the Google Play Store.
Step 3: Turn on the switch next to ‘Select-to-speak shortcut’ and tap Allow.
Use Select to Speak on Android
After enabling Select to Speak, you’ll see Accessibility floating on your screen. Open any app or page you want Android to read aloud and tap the Accessibility icon to activate Select to Speak. Then tap the Play button to hear everything on your screen.
Alternatively, you can select a specific sentence or paragraph and your Android will start reading it. The media controls at the bottom will let you go forward/backward and stop playback.
You can also change the speech language, accent, pitch, etc. To do so, tap the gear icon and select ‘Text-to-speech settings’ from the following menu.
Choose from available languages and adjust the sliders for Speech Rate and Pitch to achieve the desired voice output.
Choose to speak also includes some experimental features. Enabling ‘Background Reading’ allows you to switch between apps while Select to Speak Read. Similarly, when you enable ‘Read text on image’, Android will try to read text from image.
Give your eyes a break
These are the two best ways to make your Android read text aloud without relying on any third party apps. While the Google Assistant can help, helping it read web pages can easily save you time on your device.
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