Talkback is sluggish

No one wants to talk about this problem. Its a huge problem though. And don't think its just the Pixel. It is also all the Samsung Flagship phones. Someone once mentioned disabling like advanced keystrokes, but that's just stupid. Why buy a phone that you have to disable accessibility features on. Thanks but no thanks. Maybe in another decade they'll fix it, and fan girls canfinally admit what they claim is great is currently a load of s**t.
This is why Apple is superior.

hi, this has been a known issue for years in the android world. Unfortunately, most of the most vocal android fans won't discuss this topic. Is the subject says, I gave up on the pixel nine and bought an iPhone 16E. It's much more responsive and most important to me it's stable.
another important thing for me is the Google culture. The pixel had a working assistant, but Google ripped it out and replaced it with Gemini. Gemini was not a drop in replacement so all of the features that made the pixel stand out are now broken. Because Apple is adopting those features from the pixel, the iPhone is now a much better experience for me. That's sad, because I would like to use android, but I have to be realistic.

One simple way to speed out TalkBack is using Acapela TTS engine
in order to speed up key presses you have to make changes under keyboard.
open TalkBack menu by placeing 3 fingers on the screen, select TalkBack settings then advance settings and under typing and keyboard
heading make some changes
typing preferences and touch and hold delay
Also make some changes under G Board
open settings app, system, keyboard, and keyboard preferences.

Hi,
I’m using both an iPhone and a Pixel 10. I picked up the Pixel because I was hoping TalkBack would feel a bit smoother, but honestly I still don’t find the experience great. Out of the Android devices I’ve tried, I actually found the Galaxy S25 more responsive. What I do prefer about the Pixel though is the cleaner software. Samsung just feels cluttered with features I don’t really use.

That said, if you’re coming from iPhone, I don’t think you can expect TalkBack to ever match VoiceOver in terms of smoothness. At least I’ve never been able to get it there. I like Android for other reasons, but screen reader performance isn’t one of its strengths. I do a lot of typing on my phone, sometimes long emails or messages, and I don’t use dictation. For me, typing on Android is just not great, no matter which voice or keyboard I try.

One thing I’ve noticed is that Google’s own voices make TalkBack feel even less responsive. If you haven’t already, try Vocalizer or Acapela voices, they might give you a slightly better experience. I also came across a post on AppleVis a while back where someone had tweaked some settings on their Android and said it improved things. Didn’t work for me, but I’ll drop the link here anyway in case it helps

https://applevis.com/forum/android/improving-talkback-experience-android-phones-solving-double-tap-issues-enhancing

From the tests I did with Android, I tried everything, even the last solution posted here about changing TalkBack developer settings, but I didn’t notice such a big improvement. The only way I found is to use Commentari. What’s the problem? To install it you have to download it manually (it’s not on the Play Store), you have to get past various Play Protect blocks, and on top of that it’s Chinese software, which, not being on the Play Store, can raise some security concerns. That said, many blind users do use it, and having tested it myself, it significantly sped up the screen reader.
But it’s precisely for this reason that I want to stick with the iPhone, because I feel safer using a screen reader that’s already integrated, and with which I know security isn’t an issue.

Hi

Changing your TTS to something other then google TTS does inprove it a bit but CSR is way more responsive, there is also another screenreader called prudence that is on the Playstore that is more responsive