Talk Forward is a powerful screen reader that makes your Android phone and
tablet fully usable by voice and touch — built for blind and low-vision users
who want speed, control, and modern features.
Refined for responsiveness, Talk Forward focuses on what matters most: fast,
reliable feedback and deep customization, so the device works the way you do.
KEY FEATURES
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Fast, fluid navigation — explore the screen by touch with
low-latency speech and clear, configurable verbosity. -
Fully customizable gestures — assign one- and two-finger
swipes to the actions you use most, globally or per app. -
Automatic image descriptions — get descriptions of images,
icons, and unlabeled controls. -
On-device translation — translate the focused text
instantly, offline and free. -
Smart voice dictation — speak naturally; optional cleanup
removes hesitations and adds punctuation. -
Built-in braille keyboard — type braille directly on the
screen, with support for many languages and tables. -
Pronunciation dictionary — teach the screen reader how to
say names and terms your way, globally or per app. -
Phones and tablets — feedback tuned for real, everyday use
on any screen size.
Talk Forward is built with and for its community, and improves continuously
based on real user feedback.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE
Talk Forward uses Android’s accessibility services to read screen content
aloud and let you control your device entirely by touch and gestures. This
access is used only to provide screen-reader functionality on your device.
Accessibility and User Comments:
User feedback plays a central role in the development of Talk Forward. Reports, suggestions, and real-world experiences help improve performance, compatibility, speech feedback, gestures, and overall usability across different Android devices and apps.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
26.8.1. Android 16
Hello, I would like to leave my feedback to improve this screen reader. First, when I downloaded it for the first time and tried it a month or more ago, the Braille dots keyboard was reversed. For example, you had to flip the phone to type. Please make it like the iPhone, where dots 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on the right side, and dots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on the left side, so you can type normally without flipping the phone. Also, the gestures work in reverse; I don’t know the reason—whenever I perform a gesture, I have to do it in reverse for it to work. Although I haven’t tried it right now, I am sure these fixes will motivate me to use it. There is something else I don’t know if it can be added: when using the rotor, the keyboard is integrated with the screen reader like the iPhone’s VoiceOver, where you can put it in the rotor and use it with ease and convenience. I hope I have said something useful, thank you very much, and please accept my warmest regards.
For clarification, I mean the first, second, and third points should be on the right, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth points on the left, without flipping the phone. I apologize for not explaining that well. Thank you.
Hi, thanks a lot for your comment. I encourage you to test the latest release, which solves the issues you describe, and of course, if you encounter any other bug, either post them here, or even better, from within the app itself (talk forward settings > send feedback).
Hey, this screenreader looks nice, but I have some questions: 1. Can I use up and down and downd and up gestures to change the rotor or it isn’t possible to use these gestures at all? 2. Is the project open source? 4. Will you add more 1-finger gestures for example move slowly to the right and so on?