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... According to the Google Play Store, the Android Accessibility Suite has been downloaded over five billion times, including devices that have the suite preinstalled.

Open-source
Google releases the source code of Google TalkBack with some releases of the accessibility service to GitHub, with the latest of these changes being from May 6th, 2021. The source for for these versions of Google TalkBack have been released under the Apache License version 2.0.

Release History
NOTE: I need to convert this section into a table, one for looks, and two because of the Contents section.

TalkBack 9.1
TalkBack 9.1, released around February 2021, provides new multi-finger gestures in a new context menu which can be used for activities such as reading, voice commands, support for Spanish and Arabic in the Braille keyboard, as well as a reorganization to the settings menu of TalkBack.

TalkBack 8.2
TalkBack 8.2, released around April 2020, introduced a new Braille keyboard which uses six large buttons in screen in order to allow visually impaired users to type in a manner that may be more familiar to them.

Talkback 7.3
TalkBack 7.3, released around March 2019, added a screen search function to find text on screen in a more accessible manner and made changes to the continuous reading functionality of TalkBack by auto-scrolling pages and adding new navigation options.

Talkback 7.2
TalkBack 7.2, released November 2018, improved controls and added fast forward and rewind functionality to the screen reader.

Talkback 6.2
TalkBack 6.2, released June 2018, improved Android TV controls and Focus Management. This release also came with the rebranding of TalkBack as an independent application into a part of the new Android Accessibility Suite, which includes TalkBack and a few other accessibility tools.

Talkback 6.1
Talkback 6.1, released somewhere near early 2018, added the ability for the active text to speech language to be changed through gestures, as well as fixing a variety of bugs such as making TalkBack not speak upon receiving a phone call until the user had touched the screen.

TalkBack 5.2
TalkBack 5.2, released April 2017, added a verbosity setting for speech, added audible feedback for zooming in and out, the ability to hear password character count in Chrome, as well as a variety of other fixes and improvements.

TalkBack 5.0
https://myvict.com/google-talkback-5-0-4-3-official-release/ - Not sure on reliability of source, may use as last resort though

TalkBack 4.5
https://nfb.org/blog/android-60-and-talkback-45-accessibility-improvements

-- notes, not a part of article:
Other sources to add to current article: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/android-apps-visually-impaired-62948.html - basic definition

https://9to5google.com/2018/06/20/google-talkback-android-accessibility-suite/ - repackaging from Talkback to Android Accessibility Suite

https://apkpure.com/android-accessibility-suite/com.google.android.marvin.talkback/versions - not good as a source on it's own, but good cross reference for verifying dates and changelogs and such

Notes on primary source usage:

The article for Google Chrome uses primary sources fairly extensively to document features, changes in the software, as well as general information. This would imply that primary sources are fine for this sort of information which makes sense as any sort of deception or lying on the part of the corporation in this regard would be extremely easy to discover (if google claimed their software provided a feature, and it did not, such a discrepancy would be fairly evident)