The application is Google's Text-to-Speech engine and by uploading it as an independent app to the Google Play store, it gives the search giant some flexibility in how it updates the TTS engine.

What Text-to-Speech does is it reads aloud whatever is on your screen, as long as the app being used supports it. For example, this is the app that allows Google Play Books to read your book to you.

It’s brought Google Text-to-Speech to Google Play as a standalone app, so regardless of what device you own you can now choose to hear the familiar female voice.

While Google’s text-to-speech engine is far from what we’d call exciting, it’s still good to see Google pushing more and more of its Android system apps over to Google Play.

Google has announced that it is upgrading the Text-to-Speech (TTS) and the Speech Services in Google speech engine with “clearer, more natural voices” and synthesiser. The company says that ...

As well as application features the new Google Text-to-Speech Engine can also be used with TalkBack and accessibility applications for spoken feedback across your Android smartphone or tablet.

Google's TTS is used by any app that hooks into the API, most notably Google Translate and Google Play Books. Other text-to-speech engines are available, but Google's is pre-installed on Android.

If you’ve used any Android device since Android 4.1 Jelly Bean launched, you’ll know just how good Google’s Text-to-speech engine is. While some other companies like Samsung have been trying ...

Microsoft Azure Speech Service and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text are leading platforms for voice typing, transcription, and productivity.

Text-to-speech engines read text aloud, saving users from having to read it themselves. Google's TTS offering comes pre-installed on numerous Android devices, and like much of the software ...