Phone updated to Android 15, notify TTS service uses only Google TTS

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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I’m using a simple alert notifications like this:

action: notify.mobile_my_phone
metadata: {}
data:
  message: TTS
  data:
    tts_text: Attention! Something important has just happened
    media_stream: alarm_stream_max
    ttl: 0
    priority: high

A few days my Samsung phone (S23 ultra) updated to Android 15. Since then, despite having Samsung’s TTS selected as default TTS on my phone, every notification uses Google’s TTS (which I don’t want to use)

Does anyone know a fix for this? Is there some new argument that needs to be passed?

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go on your devices TTS settings and play the example…thats the same example the app uses. The app uses whatever is default.

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Not sure if you misread, but that is exactly what is NOT happening.

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Happens to mine too - I send a “blank” (" ") TTS first, that seems to work 90% of the time…

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might be a samsung specific bug, very strange

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Apparently Samsung have restricted their TTS engine to just their own apps and it’s no longer available to third-party apps. I assume this is what is causing this problem. @dshokouhi Assuming this is the reason, is there any way the HA app can work around this?

EDIT: It appears not. :frowning:

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Not surprising they do this kinda thing often sadly

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Nice catch, Rob!
SHAME ON YOU, SAMSUNG.
I’ve been with them for over 20 years, but I’m done now. This was a mythical “last nail” in their coffin!