Text-To-Speech adds four new languages in latest update

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 27 May 2014

‘s Text-To-Speech application has received an update today, bringing with it four new supported languages. The update brings the TTS services up to thirteen languages total, slowly but surely filling in the speech output catalog on Android devices. 

Now Dutch, (Indian) English, Russian, lish are now officially supported in version 3.1 of Text-To-Speech. ile there’s no use case for the app in its stalone form, it’s a powerful application that other apps can take advantage of. The ‘read aloud’ option in ay Books the ‘conversation’ feature in Translate is possible from the TTS application, so you may have been using it but never knew. 

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If you’d like to tweak the text-to-speech output to another language, for whatever reason, it can be changed in Settings>nguage Input>Text-to-speech output