Speaky - Text & Article voice reader 1.1
Device: iOS Universal
Category: Productivity
Price: $2.99, Version: 1.0 -> 1.1 (iTunes)
Description:*** IMPORTANT ***
Dec 1st, 2013 - We are currently experiencing some server overload issues with our article extracting service. A new fix will be available in a few days. Please excuse us until the service returns back to normal.
Speaky is a very efficient way to read your articles. In fact, you don't have to read them anymore, your device does it for you. Take any article from your favorite apps (Safari, Flipboard, Pocket, etc.), relax, get comfortable or do whatever you want to do and have your articles read out to you without any effort.
You can use Speaky when you have a lot of items in your reading list but not enough time to read them yourself or when you want to learn how to pronounce complicated words. It's also a good way to learn a new language.
Take any article from the internet and simply add it. Speaky will extract the main content, detect the language and show you all the voices it can use for this particular language. And that's all you have to do to get started. And it's great not just on the iPhone, but on the iPad as well where Speaky takes great advantage of the expanded iPad canvas.
Of course, you can type any text you want manually if you want. And if you are a Pocket user, good news: Pocket integration is built-in. You can retrieve any article from your Pocket's Queue to Speaky but also Add any article from Speaky to your Pocket's Queue.
Voices and fonts are customizable so you can decide if you want Speaky to autodetect languages for you, change the voice rate if you want it to read faster or slower, change the text size to make it bigger or smaller. Speaky also comes with built-in tutorials to help you if you have any problem.
OVERVIEW
+ Import any article or text from any website or app
+ Manual text entry in any language
+ No Internet connection required for reading articles
+ No character length or language restrictions
+ No In-App purchases for additionnal voices
+ Access to the original version of your articles
+ Sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Mail, SMS and AirDrop
+ Pocket integration to retrieve or add new content
+ Background Audio & Control Center controls
+ Lockscreen controls
+ Universal app that runs on both iPhone and iPad
AVAILABLE VOICES
- Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
- Chinese (China, Hong Kong SAR China, Taiwan)
- Czech (Czech Republic)
- Danish (Denmark)
- Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands)
- English (Australia, Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States)
- Finnish (Finland)
- French (Canada, France)
- German (Germany)
- Greek (Greece)
- Hindi (India)
- Hungarian (Hungary)
- Indonesian (Indonesia)
- Italian (Italy)
- Japanese (Japan)
- Korean (South Korea)
- Norwegian (Norway)
- Polish (Poland)
- Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
- Romanian (Romania)
- Russian (Russia)
- Slovak (Slovakia)
- Swedish (Sweden)
- Thai (Thailand)
- Turkish (Turkey)
COMPATIBLE DEVICES
- iPhone 4S and later
- iPad 3 and later
- iPad Mini and later
- iPod Touch 5th gen and later
What's New
+ Better text extracting performances
+ Fixed various bugs
Speaky - Text & Article voice reader