Fast forward to 1:10 if you just want to hear what the Alex voice sounds like before downloading the huge file. Tap the arrow to minimize and the x to exit.īelow is a video demoing how the Speak Screen feature works.
The onscreen menu allows you to pause and play, go back and forward and change the rate of speech. After the Speak Screen setting is enabled, activate Speak Screen by swiping down from the top of the screen with two fingers. From there you can also change voices, adjust the speaking speed, and enable highlighting, Speak Selection and Speak auto-corrections. Select the General tab then Accessibility > Speech > toggle Speak Screen on. This works with iOS devices running iOS 8 and newer: The highlighting is also really hit or miss, and trying to switch voices often doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t start reading much of the time, and the only way to get it to workĪgain is to restart the device. Note: This Speak Screen feature is super buggy from my experience trying to use it on an iPad Air. One thing I noticed about the Speak Screen feature is you can even switch to other apps and continue to have the ebook read aloud in the background. The Alex voice is pretty good but it’s not as good as IVONA TTS voices. It’s a lot better than the default voice but the file size There’s an enhanced voice for English (U.S.) called Alex. The defualt voice is the typical female robot TTS voice that’s not very good. There’s a speaking rate dial to adjust the reading speed. There are a bunch of different voices that you can set for different languages and dialects. You can also set it to highlight content as it reads, or set it to add a speak button when you select text, and 
The new Speak Screen feature will read aloud content on the screen when activated. TTS to some degree but it’s cumbersome to use and doesn’t turn pages with ebooks. It builds off of the more limited VoiceOver feature that could previously be used for It’s a new accessibility feature introduced with iOS 8. The text-top-speech feature is called Speak Screen. Web browser as well, and just about everything else involving text. It can be used to read aloud using the Safari This effectively creates text-to-speech for all reading apps, including Kindle and iBooks, and most likely all the other popular reading apps too. The iOS Kindle app doesn’t support TTS normally but you can use a screen reading accessibility feature on iOS devices running iOS 8 and newer to read the contents of the screen aloud, and it even
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Last week I posted a text-to-speech review for Kindle devices and a reader left a tip about how to enable text-to-speech for Kindle ebooks using an iPad or iPhone. Last updated on February 19th, 2015 16 Comments How to Enable Text-to-Speech on iPad & iPhone for Kindle, iBooks, etc
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