Setting Up and Using Select to Speak Feature on Samsung Galaxy S10 Android 9.0 Pie

How to get Samsung Galaxy S10 to speak a few lines or a paragraph of text.

In this post, let’s find out how to set up the “select to speak” function, change the voice, use the three modes, and discover 5 drawbacks.

Text-to-Speech

I want to read a long article. My eyes are tired. On my iPhone, I just have to select the text and activate “speak”.

On an Android phone, it works differently. It’s even harder to find the text-to-speech feature on the Samsung Galaxy S10 with Android 9.0 Pie.

Activating Select to Speak

• Go to Settings > Accessibility > Installed services > Select to speak.

If it is not in available go to Play Store and install Google Accessibility Suite.

Changing the voice

How to change the voice.

• Go to settings > general management > language and input > text to speech output > preferred engine.

Activating the voice

How to use select to speak.

First, click on the accessibility icon on the bottom right, then do one of the following.

• Press the play button to read the whole screen
• Tap on a word to read a paragraph
• Draw a rectangle over the words to be read

Drawbacks I discovered

The There are drawbacks to all of the three methods above.

• Number one. It doesn’t read the full article that stretches out of the screen. Just like what the iPhone can do.
• Number two. YouTube playback will be affected. You have to press the X to remove the icons on the YouTube screen.
• Number three. I can’t select specific paragraph in my calendar notes.
• Drawback number four. The accessibility icon in the bottom right removes the keyboard icon. I can’t change my keyboard anytime I want.
• Five! I cannot drag and drop events in my Google Calendar.

My wish

I wish the Android text to speech function can read the whole lengthy article from beginning to the end, without having me to scroll and touch the screen.

Feel free to comment.

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