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Bach would be read like, “A sentence about J. I don’t really care if the voice sounds stilted or robotic but what amazes me is how incredibly unsophisticated it is about things like the numbers for footnotes, block quotes, decimal points in numbers and periods in initials, etc. I’ve been experimenting with text to speech options for Kindle books over the last couple of days, thinking I could maybe read scholarly books while doing other things. I haven’t had any issues with starting it up on my iPad Air2. For example, Kobo will only start reading from the beginning of a chapter, regardless of which page you are on when you start SS up, and does not really support VoiceOver at all. All the others have issues with VoiceOver or Speak Screen. Of the reading apps I play with, Kindle and iBooks are the best. I would not say Speak Screen is buggy, rather the support for it in the various apps is all over the board, as it is with VoiceOver. I haven’t seen highlighting at all in the Kindle app. For example in the Kindle app, if you want to have it read out a popup panel, or what is on the xray screen, you have to turn it off, enter the new context, and turn it back on again. It offers more fine-grained control over things as well (speak word/sentence, etc.), and offers more ‘continuity.’īy contrast, once Speak Screen gets going, you have to actually turn it off when you are changing context and want it to read something else.

VoiceOver is a little more complicated, but it works perfectly well with the Kindle app, and does turn pages, though if I remember iBooks needed to be in scrolling mode for it to read continuously. Text-to-Speech on iPad/iPhone Video Review 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 work again 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 is a hefty 869 MB.

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 speak aloud auto-corrections. The new Speak Screen feature will read aloud content on the screen when activated. It builds off of the more limited VoiceOver feature that could previously be used for TTS to some degree but it’s cumbersome to use and doesn’t turn pages with ebooks. It’s a new accessibility feature introduced with iOS 8. The text-top-speech feature is called Speak Screen. It can be used to read aloud using the Safari web browser as well, and just about everything else involving text. This effectively creates text-to-speech for all reading apps, including Kindle and iBooks, and most likely all the other popular reading apps too.