How to use Google text-to-speech on your Android phone to hear text instead of reading it

You can use Google text-to-speech on an Android phone to help you hear text instead of reading it, and catch grammatical ...
Engadget

Google's new text-to-speech can switch languages on the fly

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...
TechCrunch

Google upgrades text-to-speech with native audio output

Onstage, Google announced new text-to-speech previews that allow developers to take advantage of “native audio output” for improved customization. Google says that native audio output, driven by its ...

How to make Google Docs read your documents out loud to you, using a Google Chrome extension

You can make Google Docs read text to you out loud with a text-to-speech extension in Google Chrome.

Google Voice Search Now Powered By Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R)

Google has updated its Voice Search models to be powered by Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). Google said this allows it to "gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to text ...
Android Police

Google Docs now uses Gemini for text-to-speech narration

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...