Samsung text to speech: settings, voices and engine
Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets have a system text-to-speech setting that apps, accessibility features and navigation use to read text aloud. You can choose the engine, Samsung’s own or Google’s, the language, download voice data and change how fast it speaks.
This guide shows where those settings are, what they can and cannot do, and how to make an audio file in a voice of your choice right from your phone.
Where the settings are
Open Settings, then General management, then Text-to-speech. There you choose the preferred engine, Samsung or Google, the language and the speech rate. The exact menu names depend on your model, Android version and language; Samsung’s support page for your region has the current steps.
Download a voice for a language
In the Text-to-speech menu, tap Language and choose the language. To get its voice data, tap the download icon for the Samsung engine; for the Google engine, tap the language and then the download icon. Downloaded data lets the phone speak that language without a connection.
What the system voice cannot do
It reads text inside apps and accessibility features, but it does not give you a file to share, and you cannot pick a character or a voice beyond what the engine offers. For a voice message, a video or a ringtone, you need an audio file.
A voice clip in another voice
Open any SuperClonica voice page in your phone’s browser, type a line of 30 to 100 characters, choose the language and press Voice it. In a few seconds you can download the recording and share it in a messenger or add it to a video, with no account and no app. The catalog has narrators, announcers, male and female voices and fan-made characters, and each speaks 31 languages.
For apps you build
An Android app can use the SuperClonica speech API: one POST request returns ogg, mp3 or wav, and a free key gives 3 minutes of audio a day. The examples repository linked below has curl, Python and Node.js code.