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expo-speech

expo83.5kMIT13.1.7TypeScript support: included

Provides text-to-speech functionality.

react-native, expo, expo-speech, speech, voice

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📚 Documentation

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changelog

Changelog

Unpublished

🛠 Breaking changes

🎉 New features

🐛 Bug fixes

💡 Others

13.1.7 — 2025-05-06

🐛 Bug fixes

  • [Android] Fix calling getVoices before TTS initialization (#36664 by @jakex7)

13.1.6 — 2025-04-30

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.5 — 2025-04-25

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.4 — 2025-04-14

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.3 — 2025-04-11

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.2 — 2025-04-09

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.1 — 2025-04-08

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.1.0 — 2025-04-04

💡 Others

  • [Android] Started using expo modules gradle plugin. (#34176 by @lukmccall)
  • [apple] Migrate remaining expo-module.config.json to unified platform syntax. (#34445 by @reichhartd)
  • [iOS] Fix warnings which will become errors in Swift 6. (#35288 by @behenate)

13.0.1 - 2025-01-10

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

13.0.0 — 2024-10-22

🛠 Breaking changes

🐛 Bug fixes

💡 Others

12.0.2 — 2024-05-09

🐛 Bug fixes

12.0.1 — 2024-04-23

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

12.0.0 — 2024-04-18

💡 Others

11.7.0 — 2023-11-14

🛠 Breaking changes

11.6.0 — 2023-10-17

🛠 Breaking changes

11.5.0 — 2023-09-04

🎉 New features

  • Added support for React Native 0.73. (#24018 by @kudo)

🐛 Bug fixes

💡 Others

11.4.0 — 2023-08-02

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

11.3.0 — 2023-06-21

🐛 Bug fixes

11.2.0 — 2023-05-08

🎉 New features

11.1.1 — 2023-02-09

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

11.1.0 — 2023-02-03

🎉 New features

  • Added utterance word tracking support for iOS and Android. This allows the ability to highlight each word in an utterance. (#20726 by @gabrieljoelc)

💡 Others

  • On Android bump compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 33. (#20721 by @lukmccall)

11.0.0 — 2022-10-25

🛠 Breaking changes

  • Bumped iOS deployment target to 13.0 and deprecated support for iOS 12. (#18873 by @tsapeta)

10.3.0 — 2022-07-07

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

10.2.0 — 2022-04-18

⚠️ Notices

  • On Android bump compileSdkVersion to 31, targetSdkVersion to 31 and Java version to 11. (#16941 by @bbarthec)

10.1.1 - 2022-02-01

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fix Plugin with id 'maven' not found build error from Android Gradle 7. (#16080 by @kudo)

10.1.0 — 2021-12-03

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

10.0.1 — 2021-10-01

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

10.0.0 — 2021-09-28

🛠 Breaking changes

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fix setting speaking listener for projects with react-native@>0.64.0. (#13654 by @dsokal)
  • Fix empty voices list on web and allow to change voice when using speak. (#4516 by @Federkun)
  • Fix building errors from use_frameworks! in Podfile. (#14523 by @kudo)

💡 Others

9.2.0 — 2021-06-16

🐛 Bug fixes

💡 Others

  • Build Android code using Java 8 to fix Android instrumented test build error. (#12939 by @kudo)
  • Export missing WebVoice type. (#13257 by @Simek)

9.1.0 — 2021-03-10

🎉 New features

  • Updated Android build configuration to target Android 11 (added support for Android SDK 30). (#11647 by @bbarthec)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Remove peerDependencies and unimodulePeerDependencies from Expo modules. (#11980 by @brentvatne)

9.0.0 — 2021-01-15

🛠 Breaking changes

8.5.0 — 2020-11-17

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

8.4.0 — 2020-08-18

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

8.3.0 — 2020-07-29

🎉 New features

  • Added constant Speech.maxSpeechInputLength - returns maximum input text length for Speech.speak(). (#9243 by @barthap)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed issue where Speech failed on Android when input text was too long. (#9243 by @barthap)

8.2.1 — 2020-05-29

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.

8.2.0 — 2020-05-27

This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.