As of the 1.17.10 minecraft bedrock update, the chat text to speech accessibility setting appears to be broken on Android 11 LG V60 also tested on Android 10 LG GX8 with same results of text to speech not working.
All was fine before the update. All setting toggles and volume levels have been confirmed to not have changed only the functionality has stopped in the app.
Tested on windows 10 as well. Only if Text to Speech for UI is active will the app read chat text on windows pc bedrock. If just turned on for chat text, it will not read the chat feed. Same results when texted on Android 11 on Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e.
Hope this is addressed ASAP with a hotfix. As a special needs user, this feature is VITAL.
We're using MCPE-129901 as the main ticket to track this issue, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate. Thank you for your report though!
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