diff --git a/demo/app/App_Resources/Android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/demo/app/App_Resources/Android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index e0109f5..9e23171 100644
--- a/demo/app/App_Resources/Android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/demo/app/App_Resources/Android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
 	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
 
+	<queries>
+		<intent>
+			<action android:name="android.intent.action.TTS_SERVICE" />
+		</intent>
+	</queries>
+
 	<application
 		android:name="com.tns.NativeScriptApplication"
 		android:allowBackup="true"
diff --git a/src/texttospeech.android.ts b/src/texttospeech.android.ts
index 2529bb0..0937fbb 100644
--- a/src/texttospeech.android.ts
+++ b/src/texttospeech.android.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ export class TNSTextToSpeech {
                                 reject(new Error('TextToSpeech failed to init with code ' + status));
                             }
                         },
-                    })
+                    }),
+                    "com.google.android.tts"
                 );
             });
         }