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Speak it! Text to Speech app for iPhone and iPad


4.5 ( 3385 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Future Apps Inc.
1.99 USD
Current version: 2.6, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 26 Mar 2009
App size: 221.73 Mb

Introducing Speak it! 2, the most advanced text to speech solution in the App Store!
Have Speak it read your emails, favorite news articles, documents and more while you exit the app and do other things with your iDevice!
All this on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad for an unbelievable price!
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Future Apps presents Speak it!, the highest quality text to speech App available for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and now iPad! Speak it! utilizes the same voice synthesis engine that has made our iSpeak translator apps such a great hit. The text to speech engine is so powerful, it reproduces speech which is clear and natural sounding.


Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it!, and have the text spoken back to you with the highest quality text to speech engine available anywhere. You can even create the same quality audio files of the text to speech which can then be emailed to anyone you like! Need an elegant way to make announcements over your PA system? Speak it! can do that too. You can easily set up a list of pre-made announcements, and play them with a press of a button. You can even use Speak it! as a fun way to prank your friends! Speak it! is your own custom soundboard, with endless phrases and possible uses.


We have also realized in the past year there has been a growing disability community using Speak it! We would like to thank those users for supporting Speak it!, and for all the incredible feedback we have received. Speak it! 2.0 has new features just for these users including landscape mode, ability to change font size, and much more coming in future updates!


FEATURES:
• Easy to use interface: simply enter the text you want to say, and press the “Speak it! button
• Four high quality voices are included: American Male, American Female, British Male, British Female
• NEW! Highlights words as they are spoken
• Ability to create audio files and email them
• Save as many phrases as you would like, and easily repeat them later
• Pause and resume speech playback
• Change the volume, as well as the speed of spoken text
• Change the font size of the text field
• Speak it! Store, where you can download 20 new voices
• Designed to be used while on a phone call
• Localized for French, Italian, German, and Spanish


*MacWorld Review (11/22/10) 4.5/5 mice!

Pros and cons of Speak it! Text to Speech app for iPhone and iPad

Speak it! Text to Speech app good for

Fonctionne uniquement en anglais. The voices are good. The pronounciation is easy to follow. One can paste long texts and then listen to them. Some annoyances: often mispronounces dont or s. For instance: "Larrys idea" is pronounced Larry -pause- S -pause- idea. But the app is quite useful and reasonably priced.
Clearly the best text to speech ap (and I bought at least 4 other aps). Almost real person like voice reading the text. A kind of safari internet browser to allow direct web to speech should be privided with the next update. Switching between aps is kind of uncomfortable. Also sometimes the ap crashes when you put in long text. Still, a great ap worth 5 stars.
I bought this for my non-verbal step son. It has allowed him the independance to go anywhere and ask for what he needs and wants. Thanks-you for developing this, it has opened many new doors to independance. My only issue is the need for a cedit card instead of an itunes card (in Canada). This should be explained and advertised more.
All the above. I was goofing around with AT&Ts Natural Voices on the web (needed to create some CBT modules for work). But, fortunately, I found this thing almost as soon as I bought my iPad. It blows away that Natural Voices thing (which I though was great at first). This little $1.99 investment pretty much justifies the iPad purchase. It comes with 4 built-in voices (American and UK). But, you can buy extra accents for .99). You can copy text out of any doc (including PDFs) and away you go. The quality of the voices makes it possible to create your own Audio Books if you wanted. Yep, Im pretty sure this will become the Text-To-Speech standard. Hmmm...I wonder if theyd consider a version for the PC? No matter, stuff like this has made me reconsider my PC interest in general. Ha!
Great little TTS app for iPhone - something I thought Id never find. However, it seems to crash quite a lot when switching voices too much. Worth the money, I found.
This app is flawless! the voices arent have robotic and have real, they sound perfect. The one thing I really wish it had the normal Microsoft Sam/robot voice. As much as the current voices are, i would give this app five stars for that voice

Some bad moments

It does not what it says it does. It does not load pdf files. You need to convert everythin into text files and do a stupid copy and paste. Imagine doing that for a 300 pg pdf file. I want my money back.
Is very good audio voice, but when you say one thing is freez and you go back to iPhone main menu!
I found this program did not work on my iPhone even after resetting the iPhone. I tried several times with short and long sentences, pressed "speak it" button and nothing was said by any of the 4 option voices. The sound did work in the recorder that came with the iPhone. I do not recommend this app.
I was really excited about this app on discovering it. And in regards to its voice quality it is truly the best I have heard. however it is missing some very necessary upgrades to reach its true potential. It needs to have a link to other Programs (like good reader ) so that files in those apps can be "opened in" speak it. Or there needs to be a way to import files. While the copy function does work, I have not found a way to past a whole document. With that feature I would give it a five star. Without it, it seems more like a toy.
its good but should be free borring and they expect you to buy voices who cares about a voice NOT ME!
The updates and voices are CRAP!!! the purchased voices do not install properly and dont work even with the new update in august 2010. What a waste of time dislodging a huge 90mb file that doesnt work !!! So pissed off!!

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