Skip to Main Content
UCLA Center for Accessible Education

Text-to-speech Output

Android Assistive Tech

To specify text-to-speech settings for your device:

  1. Open your device's Settings app
  2. Select Accessibility, then Text-to-speech output
  3. Choose your preferred engine, language, speech rate, and pitch.
    • Note: The default text-to-speech engine choices vary by device. Options can include Google's Text-to-speech engine, the device manufacturer's engine, and any third-party text-to-speech engines that you've downloaded from the Google Play Store.
  4. Optional: To hear a short demonstration of speech synthesis, press Play.
  5. Optional: To install voice data for another language, select Settings, then Install voice data. Choose the language that you want to install.