{"id":204510,"date":"2022-09-30T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=204510"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:25:03","slug":"android-phones-more-natural-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-phones-more-natural-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Android phones will soon have much more natural voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More and more these days we are interacting with virtual voices. Whether it be on automated customer service lines, with our virtual assistants at home, or perhaps when using our smartphone\u2019s text-to-voice features we are increasingly happy to hear a machine talking to us. Still, however, there is a lot of room for improvement as most of these voices sound unnatural and a little weird. To address this situation on Android phones, Google is rolling out an update to the Speech Services by Google speech engine<\/strong>, which handles text-to-voice translations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In an Android Developers Blog Post, Google has released details of a massive upgrade coming to Android\u2019s speech engine, which will affect all 421 voices that are a part of the operating system across 67 different languages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feature utilizes a new voice synthesizer and model to drive the improvement in quality <\/strong>and produce a more natural sounding voice output<\/strong>. The blog post claims that the improvements are considerable and has provided a number of side-by-side comparison audio files across multiple languages for users to try out. If you want to check them out and compare them for yourselves you can do so by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These text-to-voice features are extremely useful across a whole host of different apps<\/strong> from Google Translate to Google Play Books as well as offering inclusive accessibility features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google has said that the upgrade will be rolling out behind the scenes<\/strong> and claims that users of the TTS and Speech Services by Google engine will have already downloaded the update without even knowing about it. It will be rolling out 64-bit users of Android via the Google Play Store over the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other recent Google news, Google Chrome is getting a speed upgrade thanks to a new freeze-dried tabs feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More and more these days we are interacting with virtual voices. Whether it be on automated customer service lines, with our virtual assistants at home, or perhaps when using our smartphone\u2019s text-to-voice features we are increasingly happy to hear a machine talking to us. Still, however, there is a lot of room for improvement as … Continue reading “Android phones will soon have much more natural voices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":204518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3448],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-204510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionandroid-13"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323110,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204510\/revisions\/323110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204510"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=204510"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=204510"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=204510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}