If you’re someone who prefers having text read aloud to you, you may want to try using the text-to-speech feature on your Samsung Galaxy S7 or Android phone. Here’s how you can do it.
First, tap on the home button to go back to your home screen. Swipe up to go into the app screen and look for the Play Store app. In the Play Store app, search for an app called Accessibility Suite. Once you find it, open it up and install it.
From the home screen, swipe down at the top and tap on the settings icon in the quick settings panel. Tap on Accessibility and scroll down to Install Apps. Tap on Select to Speak and toggle the button to switch it on. Tap on the Allow button and then tap on Got It.
Once you turn on the shortcut, it will be added to the accessibility button. You can also assign other shortcuts to the side key. To do this, tap on the left-hand side panel and turn on Press and hold volume up and down keys for three seconds. You also want to activate Press side and volume up keys. When you press on the side with the volume up key combination, it will bring up a menu and in here you can choose Select to Speak.
Now open up an app that has the text you want to read aloud. For example, you can open up the internet app and find some text you want to hear. Tap on the accessibility button and this will bring up the text. You can tap on the left-hand side arrow to expand it.
Before you start having the app read out the text, you can tap on the settings button. In here, you can choose to read in the background or not. You can also choose to have it read text on images. You can change the speech rate, the pitch, and language. You can choose the preferred engine. By default, it is set to Samsung text-to-speech, but you might want to choose Google services to read out text.
From the settings button, you can choose Install voice data. Go down the list and select which voice data you want to use. After that, you can go back and tap on the play button. It will read the text from the top down or you can point where to start reading. You can also select which part of the text it will read up to.
There are also a few different ways to have it read aloud without the text. You can tap on the play button and it will read the text from the top down. You can open it up and then point where to start reading. You can drag and create a square or rectangles where you want to select the text. You can tap on the next in the back button to skip forward or skip backwards in the text. Finally, you can tap on the stop button to stop the text read aloud.
That’s it! Now you know how to have your text read aloud on your Samsung phone or Android phone in 2022.