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Auto TTS

– You listen ebooks, websites in different languages and switching text-to-speech (TTS) engines makes you bored. Auto TTS is exactly for you.

– You are blind or vision-impaired user and use TalkBack to interact with your devices. Switching TTS engines every time when arriving on ebooks/websites/applications in different language is too difficult for you.

– You are developing multilingual application and confused about managing TTS engines with their supported languages.

Auto TTS can help you!

Auto TTS has special switching mechanism with state-of-the-art auto language detection feature and helps switching to appropriate TTS engine according to auto-detected language of input text.

Auto TTS is fully compatible with standard Android Text To Speech Interface and can work with TalkBack, other TTS engines, web readers, eBook readers… without any problem.

Requirements:

– Auto TTS requires Android 4.0 or later.
– Auto TTS uses system Text-To-Speech engines for reading. So, you have to install appropriate TTS engine(s) for your languages.

How to use:

– Purchase and install Auto TTS.
– Open Auto TTS.
– Select Auto Language Detection mode:
+None:Disable auto language detection,
+Dual Languages: Word-by-word language recognition: English for Latin words and user-specified language for others,
+Automatic Language Detect: Whole-sentence language auto detect, reads text by most possible language.
– Select language for your desired mode:
+ For Auto Mode: Set preferred language for reading in case language of input text can’t be detected.
+ For Dual Mode: Select secondary language.
– Click “Go to Voice Settings” and select your preferred voice (from TTS engines available in your system) for each language. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK EACH VOICE BEFORE USING by clicking the Test button.
– Select Auto TTS as preferred TTS engine: Go to Settings (System/language and Input/Text-To-Speech output) and set Auto TTS as preferred engine.
– For developer: choosing “No linguistics content” (Locale “zxx-US”) enables auto language detection feature for input text even user disables Auto Language Detection in setting.

Supported languages:
– AutoTTS supports all languages that TTS engines available in your system offer.
Notes:
– Switching language within one TTS engine can make some delay. You can avoid this by assigning one engine per language.
– If you added new TTS, AutoTTS needs to be restarted after configuring with new TTS by restarting your device, or by switching over another TTS and then back to AutoTTS in system settings.

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Free or paid:

  • Paid with one-time purchase

Accessibility and User Comments:

It is better to configure AutoTTS before setting it as the default TTS engine. Also make sure to test each selected voice by using the test button to make sure that the voice is working so you don't lose speech after switching to AutoTTS.

Last Tested App version and Android version:

App version: 5.4.1. Android14.

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Kareen Kiwan

Since her introduction to Android in late 2012, Kareen Kiwan has been a fan of the operating system, devoting some of her time to clear misconceptions about Android among blind people. She wrote articles about its accessibility and features on the Blindtec.net Arabic website, of which she was a member of its team. Kareen's experience was gained through her following of the Android-related communities and fueled by her love for technology and her desire to test new innovations. She enjoys writing Android-related articles and believes in the role of proper communication with both the blind screen reader Android users and app developers in building a more accessible and inclusive Android. Kareen is a member of the Blind Android Users podcast team and Accessible Android editorial staff.

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