talking text for Galaxy Nexus

[3dollyday]

I switched from a LG Chocolate Touch to the Galaxy Nexus. One thing I loved was that it would read me my texts, so if I was driving, I would hear my text. I can't figure out if the Nexus has this capability and if so, how to turn it on. Please help

 

[Andrew Martonik]

Head into Settings > Accessibility > Text-to-speech output and monkey around in there. Theres lots of screen reading functionality.

 

[3dollyday]

It is not in accessibility. I can't find it. Does this phone not have it?

 

[Andrew Martonik]

It is not in accessibility. I can't find it. Does this phone not have it?

As I said, go into the Text-to-speech settings menu and turn on the feature. I believe you have to download an additional package (via the settings menu) to use it. It does work though.

 

[drzooman]

If you are using bluetooth or the headphone jack when you drive a good app is Headphone SMS

It's the only app I could get to work flawlessly on my Nexus and it only reads texts (mutes whatever you're listening to) when bluetooth is activated or the headphone jack is used for audio...

 

[zxcvb2]

It is not in accessibility. I can't find it. Does this phone not have it?

i think he meant the "talkback" option which reads everything on the screen and is not what you're looking for

 

[patruns]

It is not in accessibility. I can't find it. Does this phone not have it?

It is if you are running JB. Are you still on ICS? I can no longer check that for you but should be the same.

 

[moin1998]

If you want, I can create a custom APK for you to do it.

 

[3dollyday]

My Nexus is Verizon, do you know if they are going to upgrade to Jellybean? Does Jellybean have the text to talk feature? I did download talkback and I didn't like it because it tells you everything you do to the phone. I just want a app that will talk out my texts so I can hear them when I am driving.