Hello Samson,

I'm not an Android expert but have used both Samsung and Google phones.  You will probably have a better experience using TalkBack as your screenreader.  TalkBack is free and you can get it in the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, you will probaly need sighted assistance to get started.

First, disable Samsung tex-to-speech by going into settings accessibility and unchecking the checkbox for text-to-speech.  Go to the Google Play Store and install TalkBack.  Google determines which version of TalkBack  is the right version for your Samsung phone.  After you install TalkBack, go to settings accessibility and enable it as a service.  It should start speaking.  There may be other settings about setting the accessibility volume and using sounds but I can't remember where they are.  You can always use the search or voice search functions in the settings menu to find the options you need.  Before you start, make sure your phone is up-to-date.  I can't quite remember where to do that but it is somewhere in settings.  I think you go to language and input, advanced, and one other option I forget.  If you can successfully get your phone talking, you can decide whether you want to type directly on the phone which I think is tedious, or get a BlueTooth keyboard and pair that with your phone.  I hope this helps.

I'm sure there are other people on this list who know more about Android than I do, but what I just said should get you started.  I am primarily an iOS user but use an Android phone on my job.

Thanks,
Dan

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> On Aug 25, 2019, at 4:07 AM, Samson Perera <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi friends,
> In need of some desperate help.
> I got a Samsun J2 Core phone, with Android ver. 8.  To enable speech,
> I found instructions from the Internet.  Which said, go to settings,
> accessibility, Screenreader and enable Select to speak.  I tried this
> with sighted assistance, but unfortunately, there is no screenreader
> or Select to speak in Accessibility.  Am I doing something wrong? Or
> could it be that the speech software is not installed on the phone.
> If so, how do I go about to download and install it?
> Thank you
> Sorry for the long post.
> Regards
> Samson
> 
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