Speech Recognition & Synthesis

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the app used to work well but for last couple of months or so, it has started crashing frequently. when I uninstall all the updates, the app functions tolerably well. but whenever I Install the update, the app starts crashing. I am using Android 17. Please fix it as soon as possible.

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Dear Google Text-to-Speech Team, I am experiencing a serious issue with Google Text-to-Speech on my Samsung Galaxy M12 running Android 13. While using TTS, the speech suddenly stops working without any warning. Even after restarting my phone, the service works for only about five seconds before becoming completely unresponsive again. This issue is causing significant inconvenience, as I rely on text-to-speech for accessibility and everyday phone usage. Please investigate this problem and prov

pls add Urdu language as a offline just like a English it's just humble request..

what is this app to know

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Delete all and out my phone

no more updates!

constantly changes the words I say to a different word. most of the time not even similar sounding. it puts in the correct word as you say it and then when you look again the word was changed... go figure. also doesn't capitalize the beginning of sentences as you can see

thank you for this app speed of off not crazy it's up can you put cool to write by the community

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Android 16 ... last week's update broke so many things. while chatting with AI mode gemini, it's had 4 major errors just in the last 30 min conversation...and 2 just in posting this review!? 😤 for instance I said "Google's bedtime routine" and it typed "Google's tiny things." And since Google's updates a couple of months ago, it spells out the word etcetera instead of abbreviating it like it used to and that's incredibly annoying. can you please fix that? still waiting for that fix. thanks.

I'm sure there are others out there like it, but this is simple and handy mandy like

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what happened to this app? I was amazed at first but now it mixes up pronouns past/present tense. I thought it was supposed to learn/get better sometimes it takes just as long to type corrections i should just type in the first place

it's hard to create my Google account 😂

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dauda muhammada

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freshar

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IT is On my phone so IT gets 5 star's

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I will facing a problem in update speeching from Google this is not speaking will happening please developer tell me

freinds godgift

nightmare, cannot disable blue toggle on Speech Recognition on tv

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very good morning

Pls for next update add 3 new languages can you add 3 new languages like: Macedonian (Macedonia voices), Afrikaans (South Africa voices), Amharic (Ethiopia voices) pls for the next update

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Speech Recognition and Synthesis is not speaking any words when the default text to speed is selected. I hope the next update will resolve this issue, God willing.

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Hello, please introduce a setup menu to be customized in which telling to Google Speech To Text app which language (in my case Italian) has to be used for ita usage within all apps, regardless the selected current system language (in my case English US). This approach works well in GBoard.

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best speech recognition app

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terrible. does not work. forget gemini 4. fix your most basic functions please

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Practice pronouncing correctly

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is learning still but I'm satisfied

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needs to be fixed

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ziarul

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GOOGLE THESE BLOATWARE APPS ARE A FEDERAL CRIME! LET ME DELETE THEM! THIS IS NOT YOUR PHONE NOT MY COMPANY PHONE AND NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, WHAT'S ON MY PHONE!

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because it takes over your screen and won't let you change it back the way you had it

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Updates break voice data. Every update deletes my voice data and stops speech recognition. On my Galaxy A17, I must uninstall updates to use the factory version, download language data, and update. It works briefly until the next update repeats the exact same bug. Please fix this loop.

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not much accurate

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md.mutasim

great app use it daily

My privacy should be googles main concern, but it seems to be at the bottom cuz my stuff has been hacked for years now and I can't control it at all. Thanks Google for protecting me and my privacy. If I wasn't stuck with this android I would definitely go through Apple! This review wanted to know if this app is easily accessible, sure it is for your friendly neighborhood hacker!

THIS WAS NOT GOOGLE SPEECH ENGINES FAULT ! IT WAS SAMSUNG'S MANDATORY UPDATES TO UI 8 & 8.5.. AGAIN NOT GOOGLE'S ENGINE !!! i had to fight with this speech issue for over a Month, with A i, Help Finally after explaining to A i, what the poor spoken words sounded like. It directed me to the CURE !!! (Sorry i can't be more Helpful.. Over the month + attempts to fix it were to many to keep it straight..) AGAIN: Showing A i a Word like "Must", sounding like 2 words, "mu st" and a few others etc..

"I am experiencing significant latency and compatibility issues with the speech synthesis engine following the latest update. Using it as the default engine results in delayed audio output, and it does not appear in third-party lists like Auto TTS, causing apps to crash. Uninstalling the recent update and reverting to the previous version resolves these issues, returning the engine to normal functionality."

Assalamu Alaikum a speech services by Google. I am reporting an issue with Speech Services by Google. My name is Azhar. The app crashes and stops working. When I try to use it for Text-to-Speech to read Urdu or any other language on WhatsApp or other apps, it does not work. It works for a short time after I restart my mobile, then it stops working again. I have installed the latest update. This issue did not happen before, it started recently. Please fix this crash issue as soon as possible.

well hopefully this helps the Gboard key board understand English and Spanish as I'm a native English speaker but I am trying to learn Spanish and ever since I set it for dual languages it stopped understanding English and is not so good with español either so I'm hoping it gets fixed eventually

apparently for the past 26 years of using speech recognition my voice is one of the hardest to do. apparently it's getting better and it's a lot better than Siri from Apple right now.

Google Text-to-Speech keeps crashing and has significant latency, especially when switching between languages like Urdu, English, Hindi, and Arabic, making it very difficult for me as a blind user to navigate my device. Please fix these performance and language-switching issues as soon as possible.

The latest update for Google Text-to-Speech has completely broken its performance. It freezes and stops responding repeatedly. The only temporary fix is to force stop the app every single time, which is extremely frustrating and impractical for daily use. This core service should be reliable, but right now it is totally unusable. Please fix these stability issues and release a patch update as soon as possible to resolve this bug!

Subject: Critical Bug Report: Frequent Crashes and High Latency in Google Text-to-Speech Dear Google Support Team, I am a visually impaired user who relies entirely on Google Text-to-Speech (Speech Recognition & Synthesis) for daily smartphone navigation and accessibility. However, following the recent updates, the service has become extremely unstable: Frequent Crashes: The app crashes unexpectedly and repeatedly, disrupting normal usage and making the device difficult to operate. High Lat

yeah y'all need to fix this app it keeps putting in the wrong words every time and I mean every single time I use it !I'm so tired of having to go back and check all the words. If you don't proofread before sending you may be in trouble. please fix it !!

worst voice to text anywhere. constantly says the wrong words, leaves out words or entire sentences, capitalizes words no one would ever capitalize, adds punctuation in areas that no one would ever add them even if I specifically dictate the punctuation in the sentence. The sad part is this app will store very large "learning files" that are many gigabytes, and the best fix for this program is to delete those learning files which fixes most of the problems. It learns to be dumb instead of smart.

​"I am using a brand new Infinix Note 50s 5G, but the Google Keyboard and Voice Typing are not working properly. I have checked all my device settings, and everything is perfectly fine on my end. Despite this, the overall typing experience is very poor. It is really disappointing to face this issue on a new phone. Please look into this and fix the issue as soon as possible."

this app is awful! it covered half the screen civingvablot of apps it took over,5 days to get it off. the instructions are vague and misleading like it's so hard to find an manage it's a purpose force. I hstevwhen I'm forced to use an app I don't want to and that is exactly what hsppen so stop with consumer will use our products even if their forced to. bad business really bad

This app doesn't work at all and it doesn't correct voice typing words at all and that makes it extremely hard to text quickly with your application. You to add words to your application in United States Of America English language that are not traditional words only. there's more than one way to spell Quinton. Quentin, Quenton, Quinten. So you should have more choices to in your voice typing. YOU MISTYPE EVERYTHING .

I would like to report a critical issue with Speech Services by Google that has been occurring since the last few updates. Many users, especially blind users who depend on screen readers like TalkBack, are facing serious problems. On some Android devices, when Google Text-to-Speech is set as the default TTS engine, it gives no response at all and the screen reader remains completely silent. On some other devices, it is failing to read Urdu and Hindi languages, although it was working fine befo

Very essential when you don't have a hand free.. other than that, sometimes it goes haywire and keeps repeating everything it sees on the screen and loudly narrates it out loud, not a fun experience. Also, I hardly use GPS or something like that sort, recently got my license but unless I'm pivoting to an uber driver etc. I don't picture myself using it much. All in God's Will.

Subject: [Bug Report] Google Text-to-Speech Stopped Working After Recent Update (All Languages) ​Dear Google Text-to-Speech Support Team, ​I am writing to report a critical issue with the Google Text-to-Speech (Speech Services by Google) engine following the recent update. ​Issue Details: ​Description: The Text-to-Speech engine has completely stopped producing voice output. ​Affected Features: The voice synthesis feature is completely unresponsive across all installed languages and voices. ​Trig

Hello Google Support Team, I am facing a recurring bug where the Google Text-to-Speech engine unexpectedly crashes during regular usage, specifically while utilizing accessibility features. 🛑 When this happens, the voice output completely shuts down, and it stops working altogether until a restart or manual intervention is done. 🔄 This is a general issue affecting multiple users across devices. 📱 Please look into this stability issue and provide a bug fix in the upcoming update. Thank you! 🙏

Hello, I would like to share a review for the Speech Recognition and Synthesis application. When a blind person uses this app with a screen reader, it suddenly stops working. Therefore, I kindly request you to improve this soon and increase its processing speed.

Hello dear Speech Recognition and Synthesis developers, I am writing to report an issue that occurred after a recent update. Since this update, my Auto TTS app is not working properly with the service. The app only displays English,and opening Auto TTS causes Google TTS to stop working completely. Since Auto TTS has no recent update, I believe this is due to a recent Google update because I checked it by restoring to an older version and then it started working properly. plzz resolve this issue

Subject: Frequent crashes and extreme lag while language switching with Android Accessibility Suite Dear Google Speech Team, I am experiencing critical issues with Speech Services by Google while using Android Accessibility Suite on my Motorola Edge 70 Fusion (Android 16) following the recent update. The engine crashes frequently, and there is severe delay when switching between languages (specifically Hindi and English). Before this update, language switching was fast and responsive. I rely

This app is total A I garbage!! I never got as many words wrong before when using speech to text. Now I feel like it gets everything wrong to make look mentally challenged. seriously this had never been a problem before but now I can't have a real time conversation without looking I dare to say uneducated. There isn't any alternative as it seems to be on every Google platform. This App totally ruined my need for it as I am half blind and used it a lot before now. What A waste of time joke!!!

"The Speech Services by Google app is crashing frequently after the update two days ago on a Nokia G42 5G running Android 15. Google Text-to-Speech voices are failing, resulting in no audio output. Additionally, there is significant lag and latency in speech recognition. Please resolve these issues with an update soon." Create attractive and complete.

I hate to give any google app a one star rating, but I've tried following the online instructions with no luck. Uninstall/ reinstalled, nothing. Still "waiting for network connection to download update" this is very annoying. this issue no longer exists and had no more issues with the app.

Hello speech recognition and synthesis team, you have given a really great update. The user experience is smooth, and I hope you keep releasing updates. But there is a problem: the caller ID announcement feature is not working properly. It does not immediately announce the caller name when the call arrives; There are significant delays, and sometimes it does not announce at all. Please fix this and release another update—this is my request. thank you.

Hello dear Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google team, I am writing to report an issue that occurred after the recent update. Since that update, my Auto TTS app is no longer working properly with the service. The app only displays English and Hindi, and opening Auto TTS causes Google TTS to stop working entirely. Since Auto TTS has had no recent updates, I believe this is caused by the recent Google update. Please investigate this compatibility issue and restore the missing functionality.

"I am visually impaired and rely on TalkBack on my Samsung Galaxy A16 5G. Ever since the recent software update, Google TTS has completely stopped working with no voice output at all, leaving my phone unusable. Please look into this bug and fix it in the next update as soon as possible."

I love this engine then when it was Google text to speech. it functions well with smooth, customizable voices. but now the voices are well customized but it takes a few seconds before it responds. it delays and slows down my task. please work on this because almost every time I see new updates and if I update it nothing changes so please make this engine to be responded. more quickly than now.

don't know why but this phone is wucks so bad ot is constantly getting it wrong I got it because I got arthritis so bad some days I can't use the keyboard. And when it's always wrong or just cuts you off after 2 words. well it's beyond worthless. and it's not just me anyone who use my phone says same thing. just looked over this and was going to fix it but it proves my point

its so bad everytime. consistently no accuracy and no literal improvement from year to year. please dev, just quit. try farming. apps aren't for you. horrific app not one usage goes without a mistake or issue. simple sentences sometimes just two words, and there will always be something wrong. its just so bad.

Incredibly unreliable, as it is currently very inaccurate and inconsistent! it's getting worse with every update! I can't imagine how worse it's in the era of AI.

The speech is very helpful first and foremost but it used to place words that I don't want but it's usually on YouTube I don't know if they are related but it's not the best experience supposed to right now every word I say is correct keep up the good work can you do something about the issue on YouTube I find here and on YouTube I have to speak very close to the mic everywhere else no problem

To be honest this hearing is bad it always says all the stuff I say wrong I'm doesn't include the just like when I was using my view than other things it just doesn't hear me well for some random reason and it's just like annoying especially when you like want to do something and then you pause the thing and then it just randomly soft like that's confusing he and I said stop he said soft

If this may speech recognition for This app it get a FFF for doing a very poor job. if I talk just a little fast it never get what I said. It not much better when I talk slow.More than 92% of the time it does not get the correct words I have used in a search engine.I hate to see how it is with a person that has a slight accent.Than I bet it be 99.5 % never get right words. It worse speech recognition ever. It need to be able to train one voice so it can get all words correct that u use to speak

this is a test of using speech recognition synthesis with Google gboard. I'm currently using it filling out this review. it doesn't seem to be capitalizing the first word of the sentence even though that option is selected and the settings. not sure if this is a gboard issue or a speech mission issue but hopefully this speaks for itself. no pun intended.

Easier than typing out an entire message but it very rarely hears what you actually said. ALWAYS read what your sending before you hit send. They keep updating the app and it seems like it gets dumber more than smarter.

Speech Recognition & Synthesis is a useful and reliable Android service that makes voice-based features and text-to-speech functionality work smoothly across many apps. It provides clear speech output and supports accessibility, voice commands, reading, and other everyday tasks. Overall, an important background service that improves the Android experience and makes devices more accessible.

AWhen it comes to speech-to-text, it's not that good; it misses a lot of words. I've got Typeless on my phone, and if you talk straight to it clearly, it picks up every word. What's good about Typeless is that it puts in the commas, the periods, and the question marks for you automatically. It is AI-driven. good alternative to others

this voice to text it's just ridiculous does not work at all for one it just shuts off randomly when I'm trying to talk for two it doesn't type anything close to what I'm saying I don't know how many times I've came to this and updated it doesn't do no good it keeps shutting off on me just stops in the middle of what I'm saying just stopped typing how about you guys put out an update that actually updates it

Please add an Auto Detect option for Primary Language or a language switch button on the current voice typing screen. The current UI only has Settings, Mic, and Backspace. If Primary Language is Marathi, "How are you?" becomes "हाऊ आर यू". If Primary Language is English, Marathi is typed in Roman instead of Devanagari. Please let voice typing follow the current keyboard language instead of requiring Settings → Primary Language every time.

I had to be right this because , again as I was going to say it gets half your words incorrect constantly, constantly, but what can you do. i've slide so much to fix but see there , I said dead but it said slide go figure! really hate it I don't know any other options question mark comma c once again , it didn't even do the question mark or the comma

best app is constantly messing up. I'm using it right now to type this. All of the mistakes that don't make sense are because of this app. it is constantly wrong. I rely on things like this too heavily for it to be as bad as it is. I don't know what kind of update and needs to fix the problems but they need to happen regardless. I speak clearly with no accent. This app is a discipline. disappointment

reviews say it has terrible voice recognition. that's by design. this is one of the best speech recognition programs on the planet. they just don't want it to work. they want you to use their other option that is tied to their servers which then allows them to record every single word you say at all times it will be recording. think of things like this, all tech companies are working towards better AI. better AI requires more data. every move they make can be expected to generate even more data.

I've started getting an error message re: this app. tts-models_preview Download failed. This message keeps popping up on my push notifications. There have been at least 2 updates since I started getting it, but I still keep getting it.

The app works very well, but I won't say great. Especially for someone who is blind. there is other technologies out there that Google could implement into the tts. Engine to make the voices sound better and not so robotic and a lot more clear, but for some reason, they're not using it. i don't know why. unfortunately, sometimes people like myself get lost in the mix. Because this is a sighted world there's always room for improvement, so continue to make it better and I'll give it 5 stars.

So I tend to experience situations where it pauses at odd times and I have no understanding of why it's doing that. Like when I said "odd" at first it put "add" before correcting itself. But many times it doesn't correct itself and I have to go in and correct it. So it's by no means a perfect system. But I do think that it's heavily utilized and so it definitely depends on the time of day that you're using it. Because later on in the evening it seems to work better.

Works inconsistently. It's horrible in switching languages. Switching languages has to be done manually. Instead of punctuation signs, the app displays punctuation as words aka 'comma', 'period', 'question mark' regardless of a language. Annoyingly improper autocorrect feature. While improved on grammer, the basics are still needed to be fixed. Now I type instead of using voice recognition. Seems like several years ago, the app was more robust in recognizing different languages.

This app is less than average in accuracy. It starts to write, then turns off before I finish. If I try again, it turns off after about 2 secs. I am not exaggerating. I have to press the microphone again & it might not turn on. Last year, it worked better. On my lowly Moto G, it worked pretty well and had a repertoire of frequently used words & phrases. I don't use a paid app so that yet another app has personal info. Worse when dictating in Spanish! It writes word instead of the punctuation.

Half the time, using speech to text stops working, or what I say is delayed by about 30 seconds or more. When I go to clean the cache, the cache is empty. Other times, I am speaking in English, and it types in Spanish. There no instructions anywhere on how to fix these issues. Half the time, the app Miss understands what I say and types the wrong words or stops before I'm finished saying three words. Very annoyed!

Feels like every time you update you mess it up more. Over the last month or so, it's been dictating a whole sentence, and then "correcting it" down to like the last three words. Also the accents aren't working now, again. The British English voices sound the best on my e-reader, but they don't work when this is updated. I've been having to uninstall the updates to get it to work for the last week.

They've mostly fixed the "muh" instead of "my" problem in the US English voices, but there's still some pretty glaring problems. It's almost never accurate when it comes to abbreviations (for instance, saying "drive" instead of "doctor" for “Dr.“) Context is not it's strong suit. Also, there's still no tonal change for words that are italicized, which often makes sentences sound confusing. I love this app, but there's still plenty of room for improvement!

Same problem as others - it has been trying to download all day. Says it's waiting for a network connection. Its cancel button doesn't work. My wifi and 4G connections are good, and all my other apps are connected and working normally. Update April 8, 2022: Just tried the new version and it downloaded & installed with no problems. Increased my rating to three stars for now.

Doesn't work at all, would rate no stars if possible. After an update in early March, the ability to convert speech to text disappeared entirely. The button that all the online instructions say will allow me to dictate while the system generates text to match now only records my voice. In my messenger app, in my email, and in my notepad/ documents. This was once a service I relied on heavily, and I am furious that no one at google can be bothered to address the clearly broken program.

I got the same issues with the constant downloading of the English where it's waiting for network connections. I know I'm connected to a network cause all my other apps work just fine. I'm pretty sure that the developers know about this problem since they put in an option to turn off the downloading notification. Don't fix it just give us the option to turn off so we won't see it anymore...Really?! Got to be from the last update cause if you uninstall it the notification goes away.

I am having the same issue that everyone else is, constantly downloading and searching for internet connection. This is extremely frustrating and needs addressed. This is an update to my comment. This app keeps wanting to update, and is constantly searching for connection. I keep uninstalling it, and it cones back having the same issues. Giving it a zero rating.

I don't know what the problem is, but it keeps wanting to update, but never does. I even uninstalled and reinstalled it but it still does it. It says it's waiting for a network connection, but it won't connect even when there are MULTIPLE connections available. It's pretty much useless, anyway, because at least half the time it spells out punctuation instead of placing what is said (i.e., "period" instead of "."). Time to uninstall again - PERMANENTLY!

App keeps trying to update but doesn't update...cancel button doesn't work. I have tried several fixes suggested online but problem keeps coming back. Needs to be fixed. Don't want this app eating up my battery trying to download. Update: Uninstalled the app and it is still trying to update about once a day. I have had to uninstall again every day. What's up with that??? How do I get rid of this annoyance??? Update 2: Force stop and disable finally resolved issue.

This app is frustrating. Just like other reviews my issues are the same. I have tried all possible fixes as well, and like others say; it does stop the download notification for a day or two (if that) but like clock work it never fails to pop up again. Please fix! I don't even think you can completely uninstall the app either. #frustrating

Have tried everything everyone recommended. Restarting, manual downloading, clearing the data, everything. It'll say it's fully updated and then the next day once again downloading. Even if I'm connected to wifi nothing will download. It has sucked up so much of my data. Every dau I have to redo everything. I still pops up when disabled. Google fix it please. I'm actively losing my mind.

Like others have said, the attempt to download/update needing a network connection is constant. I've had to force stop it, tried to "help" (?) it by connecting to wi-fi when I noticed it and letting it sit to try to establish the connection (much like software updates), but it never does. Unsure if it's a big battery drain, but sticky notifications are problematic at best. This needs to be fixed soon.

I have no idea how is app is, or if it is working on my Samsung tablet & phone. Since this last update started ... It seems a week so far, I have watched it constantly trying to download waiting for connections. You can't make the alert notice of it go away either. Just irritating as it helps battery consumption as well as partial processing availability having to deal with it. Have Uninstalled 3 times cycling a process that is ineffective.

Had the same problem as others with app waiting for network and constant downloading. I opened play store, search for "speech services by Google", then click on uninstall. Reinstall and problem solved ! Seems to be a glitch in new software overwriting the older version, but if the older version is uninstalled the new version installs without the problem of updating the older version.

Go to the top right hand corner where the three little dots are, tap on it and hit disable auto update. I was having the same problem as everybody else and this made it stop finally. Thank goodness because it was very irritating to continuously download and say it needed Wi-Fi when it had Wi-Fi!!! Mine has been doing it for days too but now it's fixed!! 😸

Same problem as everyone else. This so has been running on my phone for days & there's no way to stop it. It's not updating(saying.. downloading English (US)& waiting for network connection)when wifi is on(There's no need when it's 5G). It's not updating at all. It's running my battery down & you're not allowed to cancel it. I've restarted my phone multiple times & it's not resolved What's the purpose? Whatever update occurred, this needs to be fixed asap. This is starting to be a real problem.

I had the same problem with it constantly downloading. I had to go into the app itself and do a 'forced stop'. I made sure my Wi-Fi was connected because it seems this app won't update through a data connection. I restarted my phone and the update seem to start automatically and it got stuck again so I repeated the same process and that seemed to work. I'm not recommending this, I'm just telling you what I did. My opinion is this is a unnecessary workaround not something we should have to do.

Uninstall the app then go to your app settings and disable it. It'll stay until you restart your device. Then you got to do it again. I don't have auto updates enabled, so the very fact that this is the third Google app I've caught updating is pissing me off, especially when it's trying to connect to a network and running my battery down while making it hot. 6 x it's tried to auto update now and gets stuck!! Fix your unwanted bloat on my phone or make it stop auto updating please!!!!!!!

I've Uninstalled it half a dozen times. It just shows up the next day and does the forever down load. It also wants me to enter my password for a hidden folder. Not sure how that's relevant. Maybe if we all give it 1 star, the developer will fix the constant down load issue. I give up, but there's my one star. Want a higher rating? Fix the issue every one seems to be having.

As everyone has said, I have had for a few days a never ending update while connected to my network to reliable internet. The only solution is go to the app store, uninstall it which kills the update. Then you can update it on the store and it goes through quickly. The fact we had a never ending finding network update killing the battery is inexcusable and a massive failure during their software development cycle.

This app is just sitting there claiming its waiting for a network connection but I have one even hitting cancel does nothing. This is causing the batteries of my devices to drain at a faster rate than normal. Fix this issue NOW. If I had been in charge of the ones responsible for this they would already have been fired. This is totally unacceptable.

Another confused "customer" here...same issue with "waiting for network connection". App description says it can't be uninstalled because it's part of the software bundle. I just keep going through settings to get to the app itself and do a force stop. It's a "fix" until I power off. As soon as I power on again, the madness starts anew...hope someone at Google is "on this"...

I'm having the same problem as everyone else and I'm tired of it!! It says waiting to connect, waiting to connect!! It's driving me nuts and it needs to be fixed now!!!! I don't have WIFI so fix it already!! I tried to cancel it but that didn't work, now I've got it on snooze and it says that only lasts for one hour!! I'm so tired of having problems with you Google!! If it's not this it's something else, like my Solitere games that take forever to load & I still can't get my rewards!! FIX IT!!!

Im having the same issues as everybody else with this update. I've tried everything I could think of. Can't Uninstal the app but I uninstalled the updates, I deleted data and cache, I unchecked auto updates, and stopped running in background, with everything I've tried it still comes back to the same waiting for a network connection to download voice services. I haven't seen any reply to any of the reviews either, with some sort of acknowledgement to the problem. So idk what's next.

Keeps searching for a network to update when I already have the phone connected. It is causing my phone to slow down & hang. I have tried to manually update but the reply I get is that it's up to date... So why is it trying to find a network to update!? I force stopped the app only to find that it's running again 2 minutes later. 😠🤬 Is this app really needed!?

Same issues as everyone else! Update is in a loop and it needs to stop! PLEASE FIX THIS! It's constantly running! I don't even know what this is for anyway! I also tried to cancel it and it won't let me cancel it. It did let me snooze it but it's trying to upload again now. It messing with my storage! Please stop this update!

Sometime ago this app replaced the one I was using for speech to text and I haven't been able to change it back. It does not work well at all and it is hard to use. As I write this review, it keeps shutting itself off. It's autocorrect errors are ludicrous. And I am having the same problem as all the other reviewers with the update that won't happen and can't be cancelled. I need speech to text and I can't use my phone without it, but this app sucks.

Just like many others have stated, there was a hang up in updating the app. It said it was waiting for a connection despite the phone being connected to both wifi and mobile data. After a couple of weeks dealing with an annoying notification, I just Uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. It apparently worked, but should not have been necessary. Google please debug your updates BEFORE sending them out. Thank you.

This app has been stuck in my notifications for days saying "Downloading English (US) Update waiting for network connection" I've tried restarting my phone and it won't go away. What's going on Google? Your company is a top rated company and you mean to tell me you can't fix this issue! This is no way to get customer's to like your brand, it just pisses them off when all the complaining goes unnoticed and you don't even respond back to let them know what's going on. Please fix this issue!

Latest update has a bug. It hangs up in "downloading English (US) update waiting for network connection" even though I am connected to WiFi. Happened on multiple devices. First device, I forced stopped app and cleared Google app data, and it cleared the notification. This device I just uninstalled/reinstalled app. Both times, I look at offline voice recognition and dictionary seems to be installed, and no update listed. So I guess it has latest info.

A native Android app shouldn't be "waiting for network connection" for 12 hours, when every app on your phone has updated over the same full-strength wifi. There's something wrong with this update, & neither a manual update through the Play Store nor a rollback to the factory version have fixed it. Nor have any of the other usual fixes (phone reset, clearing cache, etc). The "cancel" button does nothing.

It's, for some reason, taking forever to download an updated - citing (waiting on network connection). My data and wifi are in full blast right now so I don't understand. I've never noticed this app, which I assume is the purpose if running correctly. Came here to see what the problem was but saw no update in progress for it. I ended up uninstalling then reinstalled it

Having the same problem as most. Constantly, non-stop, downloading. Says downloading English (us) update. It never finishes and I can't cancel. Very annoying. I went to just unistall speech services app altogether but when I did it seemed to mess with my fitbit that connected to this phone so I had to reinstall, and since I reinstalled, it's still Constantly trying to download. Would be 5 stars if not for that.

When the new app started to continually try to update, I searched online for solutions - there are several. There are youtube videos that show how. In my case, I had lost wifi in the middle of an update, but it kept trying unsuccessfully even when I got back to wifi. Finally, I cancelled the update, and it successfully restarted and completed the update. Google needs to fix this user-unfriendly version!!

There has been an update downloading for four days now. It won't finish and it won't go away. Speech services as it is has been a pain anyway; it registers "oh" before a comma, has no way of learning new words or adding words to any kind of speech dictionary, and often randomly changes words earlier in a text quite some time after I finished saying that part. Why? Please do something about the eternal update and ACTUALLY improve the service.

Keeps trying to update and says waiting on connection. I also hit cancel and it will not stop. To help a person that said the same thing was happening. I figured out how to stop it. I went into the settings and found the app ( speech Service update) bottom it said force stop. I hit that and it took it off. Its no longer on my notification bar. Hope that helps. It did say may cause errors but I did it anyway because obviously this update already has errors. 🤷‍♀️ Haven't had any problems

Is this going to get fixed? Stuck in a constant download regardless of connection used (wifi or mobile data). I can't cancel the download or initiate the download manually. Draining my battery quickly due to the phone continuing to attempt to download. This is a HUGE mis-step by Google and based on the number of reviews, why it hasn't been addressed is concerning. I was already considering moving to an Apple device this may actually tip the scales.

I also get the "Downloading English (US) Update. Waiting for network connection..." notification and it will ABSOLUTELY NOT GO AWAY!!! No, touching CANCEL in the bottom right corner of notification does not work. This is very annoying. Please fix bug (S7 Edge...I know, I know, but I am eagerly awaiting release of S22 Ultra next month, in that smooth green 😉)

I have tried to stop the download for well over 1 hour, it won't cancel or stop, I changed my WiFi setting to a slower connection, I checked my app usage all the way back to first part of December, no usage, no downloads, it's a idel app. No usage, so why even have it? What is it used for? From one review, someone stated that it was listening to conversations because it replied to something on TV. So who is spying on the users, maybe time to remove it.???

MAKE IT STOP!!! This app has been trying to update for two days now. I have tried all solutions given to get it to stop running and none have worked, not even the cancel option. I did get it to find the network and now it has been downloading for three hours but percentage bar hasn't moved. Turning off the phone and restarting doesn't keep the update from starting over within an hour.

If i could put a zero I would. I'm having the same trouble as everybody else. It'll say it's updating, looking for network. Tried to cancel it but it wouldn't stop. I'm also connected to wifi and have mobile data. Can't make it stop. Uninstalled and reinstalled. No help. I would really like to use the service if it would work. WHAT TO DO??? WHEN THEY GOING TO FIX IT????? SO FRUSTRATED!

About 5 years ago, I would say it was pretty useful, Now It's become awful.. Sometimes I speak a whole paragraph into the phone and send it off without reviewing as I'm busy alot of times and I have no time to review something I can just say in person much quicker, and when I look at what I sent, it's a complete disaster, and sometimes a complete embarrassment.. Always having to send a correction text saying, please excuse the last text, google didn't translate anything right.. I speak into the phone loud and clear too.. If you need to type a whole paragraph, I suggest either typing it out, or looking over and correcting all the words that are incorrect, at that point it's more trouble than it's worth.. It's only good for a brief few words, like "I'm Here", or I'm 5 mins late", etc..

I would definitely not recommend this application. While it is good for simplethings like reading text messages and navigation; it is completely horrible for reading Google Play books. There are no pauses, there is no inflection, there is no distinguishing intonation or question marks. If you need inflections, you have ot read at a snail's pace because the synthesizers are too robotic sounding, and lose their intelegibility at rapid rates, whereas third-party text to speech engines do not. The worse thing is that Google broke things so that now you can only use either their text to speech engine for applications like Play Books and Kindle, regardless of your preferences. Since last month, Google has imposed their horrible text to speech on my phone, and I have had to switch to another device to read. So yeah, one star for sure!

I swear the dictation gets worse every time I use it. If there's any sort of background noise it will mess up horribly, and it inserts words that don't make sense. Every time I say comma it inserts "oh," even though there's no reason for it, it capitalizes random words, and if it's a multi sylable word I might as well type it because it'll give me gibberish garbage instead. It used to be better, now it's more frustrating than typing and walking.

This app was good but now it sucks. First, they moved the back arrow. Then they got rid of the word correction options which requires you to use the back arrow to get back to the keyboard way more frequently. Next there is something wrong with the app where it hangs up and doesn't let your phone screen go black oh, so it will run your battery dead if you don't pay attention. Finally, about two out of three times that you use it you can say one word and then it shuts itself off.

Bad update. Don't like the new interface. They took away the X at the top right of the box and switched it to an arrow on the left. So annoying! Also since the text engine is so bad when you say words like 'are' what you end up getting is 'AR'. Used to be that you could tap on that misspelled word and they would give you options to correct it. No longer so! What in the heck are you putting this out for when it is incomplete and almost unusable? I uninstalled all updates

It will quite often type out what I said, and change it right away or change it later on as I continue to verbalize the rest of my message. It's quite frustrating that it doesn't work without internet. Especially since my new phone does not come with a built in speech to text. LG Stylo 6. Seems to be completely dependent on Google apps. Please Google make this app more user-friendly. 1 * because the focus seems to be on data collection and not functionality. 👎

Really really frustrated with recent updates. The app has worked well for the most part. 4 last couple years but is now inserting periods and other punctuation points randomly as well as weird other characters and numbers. And leaves out words. Particularly when I attempt to use it. In text messaging. I am using Speech-to-Text now and I am choosing not to edit out. The issues so that someone Who can change this can fix it? Very soon. I hope.

I've been enjoying this app for reading pdf and epub type books. However, it often stumbles over words with multiple uses such as bow or read. It constantly changes sat to "saturday" as if it were an abbreviation. And it doesn't seem able to sound out many uncommon names. Might I suggest having this program read an ebook while also listening to an audiobook of the same story? To help it learn context and better pronunciation of certain words or names. Thank you for making such a useful app!

The app is basically fine. But whenever the app is updated, all of installed offline voice data is disappeared and I can't use TTS anymore. I have to download them all over again. If I could, then no problem. If I can't download, it's a big problem like it is right now. Right now, I've tried to download offline voice data many times, still, I can't. The Internet is working. It's just, the app is not downloading anything. So, I can't use TTS anymore. So great!!!

Update I wish there was a way to roll back to an older versions that actually works. It put words together that is not used together in the English language. I've been using this for a long time but, I have a one+ 6, the voice recognition is horrible on the new version. It types the word correctly but then it changes it to something that does not make sense in a sentence. Changes words like "bet" to "said", "in" to "and"