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

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 ...

The latest version of the app adds a “Google Text-to-speech engine” that allows users to highlight text they want read back. Selecting the option will bring up a box that simply says speaking.

Google Text-to-speech is part of Android's accessibility suite. It reads text aloud for those who are blind or live with low vision.

Just as Google did with their popular Translate app, the search giant has now brought in-app functionality to their Text-to-speech engine.