It'll make the microphone button on your keyboard not work and turn your GPS app mute. Other than that, no bad effects.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
36 points (100.0% liked)
privacy
9044 readers
33 users here now
Big tech and governments are monitoring and recording your eating activities. c/Privacy provides tips and tricks to protect your privacy against global surveillance.
Partners:
- community.nicfab.it/c/privacy
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Can you replace it with an OS app like SherpaTTS?
I have replaced it with sherpaTTS and now I can hear glados' voice for navigation :D
Really? which one are you using to get the Glados effect?
The repo links to this to test models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech And there is a glados one listed there (at least in english and german)
Yes but I've given up on that front. Not important enough for me to research any more.
Well, seems I can uninstall it. Thanks.
I'd also expect it could make Google translate unable to pronounce words.
Yes you can. Enable USB debugging and do this adb command:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.tts
And if you want to restore it:
adb shell cmd package install-existing --user 0 com.google.android.tts
I used Brevent on my phone to uninstall it.
I don't have it installed on my phone and it works just fine.
/GrapheneOS
I think Duolingo requires it in order to do speaking exercises.
I don't use it anyway, so this wouldn't be this big of a damage.
I think it's used for google assistant and the voice digitation, i am not sure tho, but anyway it's not something that will break Android and you can just reinstall it