Android Apps to Convert Text into Speech

Reading always helps us increase our knowledge about everything. Those days people used to read newspapers and books but today we are in a technological world that most of us use the smart devices to do so. Because we get more in the internet and we can literally search for whatever we want and start reading. But there is one thing to consider about when we talk about reading in a smart device, either on a smartphone or a tab is that it can cause distress to our eyes.

Today, we are able to read stories, novels, news and any other articles from the phone itself, but as the screen is small and also the brightness level can vary, we sometimes feel listening to them is better than looking into that bright screen.



So if we have an option to listen to all the PDF’s, e-books, text files or any other web pages that we read, it would be better and easy. And now we can do it easy from your android. All you will need is an app that would convert the texts and provide you the audio version, where you can sit and listen to it in a speech form. There are a few apps that would do the job for you. So come let’s check them out one by one.


Text to Speed Apps for Your Android Device

Native text to speech feature

Well, like macOS Android has got a native text to speech feature which would work perfectly in some selected google apps. To convert the text to speech, all you have to do it select the sentences or the paragraph in your chrome browser that you want to convert and select the translate option. 


Then a popup will open and select the language to English and then tap on the speaker which will be avian on top of the output language. It will literally start to read out the text.


Sometimes when the screen turn off the audio will stop. You can change the settings by going to the ‘settings’ > ‘system’ > ‘language and input’ > ‘text to speech’. 

You can also change some other settings such as pitch, select a different engine and more.

TK solution- Text to Speech (TTS)

This is a user friendly and minimal app that would quickly turn your texts into speech. All you have to do is install the app, enter the text to the app and start playing it. Doing so, you can enjoy listening to it without an interruption. You can also load or save the texts directly from the app. By tapping on the mic icon you can dictate the texts.


A best feature that’s available in it is that you can change the pitch and speed of the Text to speech voice. 

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Talk free

This app is one of the best, which would allow you to convert texts from many languages into speech using your internet connection. It uses the inbuilt TTS engine of your android smartphone.


If you have uninstalled the inbuilt TTS engine, then make sure to get it back before start using the talk free app. You can import text or read web pages directly from the app. Save the speech as a WAV file for the purpose of using offline or sharing.

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T2S: Text to speech

This app practically transfers the texts into speech in a more moderate way. You can create and open a text file and get it convert to speech in no time at all. You also have the ability to record the audio and export it as an audio file. You can also customize the pitch and speech rate as per your desire and get it saved.


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@Voice aloud reader

This is one amazing app that would convert the texts into speech so perfectly. It is used by the majority of the users from all around the world. The best thing is it supports majority of the text file formats like TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, Open office documents, EPUB, MOBI and so much more. And that is why everyone prefer this app the most.


You can also increase or decrease the playback speed as you wish. You can get the texts saved in and listen to them even after a day. Pause and play works so accurately. The beat part is it comes with a night mode and sleep timer too, which would be a great benefit to all the late night listeners.

This is one of the app which was used to bookmark all your favorite articles or any reading sites, which will allow you to do the reading later. But now with its new feature you can also use it to convert the text to speech.


Thereby all the articles that you wish to have in your favorites can be book marked and then listen when you want to. All you have to do is send the web page to the pocket app and take advantage of its text to speech feature.


So that’s it, we have now checkers on a few texts to speech converting apps that would works accurately without any problems. This would be helpful for many of you out there who prefer listening over reading. 

This will also be a great choice for the mothers who can play the text and have it beside the beds of their kids at the night story times. So I hope you would have benefited from this guide. Enjoy listening!