Voice Notify

4.0
3.21K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Voice Notify announces status bar notification messages using Text-To-Speech (TTS) so you don't need to look at the screen to know what a notification says.

FEATURES:
*Widget to suspend VN
*Customizable TTS message
*Limit length of spoken message
*Replace text to be spoken
*Ignore specific apps or notifications containing defined text
*Choice of TTS audio stream
*Choice of speaking when screen or headset is on or off, or while in silent/vibrate mode
(Note: Due to API limitations, a headset that is connected when the VN service starts will need to be reconnected for VN to see the current state; also all Bluetooth devices are detected the same, headset or not)
*Quiet Time
*Shake-to-silence
*Custom delay of TTS after notification
*Repeat notifications at custom interval while screen off
*Notification log
*Post a test notification


VN operates through Android's Notification Listener service and must be enabled in the Notification Access settings.
Shortcuts are provided in the configuration screen to open the Notification Access and TTS settings.


PERMISSIONS:
Bluetooth - Required to detect whether Bluetooth headset is connected.
Vibrate - Required for Test feature while phone is in vibrate mode.
Modify Audio Settings - Required for improved wired headset detection.
Read Phone State - Required to interrupt TTS if a phone call becomes active.


ABOUT AUDIO STREAM OPTION:
Behavior of audio streams may vary by device or Android version, so I advise doing your own testing to determine which stream is right for you. The Media stream (default) should be good for most people.


DISCLAIMER:
Voice Notify developers are not responsible for the notifications that are announced. It is up to you to configure VN or your device, or not use VN, to prevent unwanted announcing of notifications.


PROBLEMS:
Please email me or submit any issues at:
https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/issues
If necessary, you can sideload any version from the releases section on GitHub:
https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/releases


SOURCE CODE:
VN is open source under the Apache License. https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify
Code contributor details can be found at https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/graphs/contributors


TRANSLATIONS:
Translation is crowdsourced at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/voice-notify.
If for any reason you can't or don't want to use Weblate, you can always email me or contribute directly to the GitHub project.
Complete languages: English, Indonesian, Spanish
Partial languages: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian


A special thank you to all the developers and translators who donated their time and expertise to make Voice Notify better!
Updated on
Jan 10, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
3.06K reviews
NCW MAN
January 19, 2024
I am using this app to read out loud alerts from my yolink monitor system. It can monitor almost anything including security sensors. Yolink sells voice hubs and alarms for the system so it seems, they have purposely silenced any phone alerts. I need my phone to function as the main alert system for any yolink sensor, there could be 100 or more and now with detailed alerts and voice notify app I'll get each alert read out loud. I can't even begin to explain how happy I am with this app. Thanks.
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Jonathan C
November 7, 2023
So far so good. Tried for about 4 days and it works to announce messages to my bluetooth earbud. Tried to fine tune the customizable TTS but still cannot announce in the sequence of "App name", "message from", "message content". I could not find manual or guide to explaine the full list of $ parameters usage. I couldn't find email address of developer to ask for help.
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Mike Jewson
April 13, 2024
The app works at first, but frequently (a few times per day) decides to stop working. I can get it to work again by going into Settings, removing the notification access permissions for the app, and then re-adding them. I am on a Xiaomi Note 10 Pro, running Android 13.
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What's new

- Support more notification data
- Add detail dialog (access by clicking log item)
- Support light mode system theme
- Increase log limit: 20 -> 100
- Increase default TTS max length: 100 -> 500
- Other fixes and improvements

See GitHub for full release notes.