4 Free Android Text To Speech Apps


There are huge number of people who use or want to use good text to speech app on their smartphones. And such apps are in demand among the people who like listening to Podcasts. If you have a huge article, then reading it on your smartphone display might prove be a I HATE IT task.

I have listed out some free Android text to speech apps which would prove to be a great asset for any Android device. Isn’t it cool that you can have the text read out loud on your smartphone? It isn’t just about ebooks, you can have web pages, messages and many other things read out loud.

4 Free Android Text To Speech Apps

eSpeak TTS

eSpeak TTS is a freee TTS app for Android. The best part about this app is that it supports over 40 languages, which is truly incredible. Since its still in its early stages, you could experience few problems with it. But its surely worth trying.

IVONA Text To Speech

It is still in its beta stage, and this is the reason its free. It helps you with voiced navigation instructions. In addition to this, it lets you read ebooks, social news feeds, SMS messages, and many other speech enabled apps. It is pretty easy to configure it. Install this app and navigate as Android Settings > Voice Input & Output > Text to Speech settings and then activate IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ at the bottom of the screen and select it as the Default Engine. Give it a try!

Talking SMS

If hearing out SMS is your primary requirement, then I would suggest this check this out. It would read out Sender Name, and complete message. Apart from that, it supports few languages other than English too. It comes with some cool features, which makes it one of the powerful apps to get SMS heard.

Talk – Text To Voice

Just like IVONA, this Talk – Text To Voice app also is a good one to try out if you are looking for a complete solution for text to speech conversion. It reads out browser content, books and messages for you.

There are huge number of Text To Speech apps available in Android market. I have checked handful of them and have listed the best ones among them. If you have been using any other such app which deserves to be in this top list, then please comment and share.

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October 15, 2012 by: Prasanth Chandra

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