OS X: Edit-> Speech -> Start Speaking. iOS: ???

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Subject says it all. Anyone know if there is an iOS equivalent?

[The UnDoug]

Not sure if I'm understanding the OS X feature to which you're referring, but if you are in a text input area in an iOS screen, you an click the little microphone next to the space bar, and you can then start dictating.

I should add, that in the couple of OS X apps I just looked at, I see "Start Dictation..." in the Edit menus, but not "Speech -> Start Speaking"

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I want Safari or Apple News to read out loud to me as I do other tasks around the house.

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space-time wrote:
Subject says it all. Anyone know if there is an iOS equivalent?

Settings: General: Accessibility: Speech

Turn it on and thereafter you'll see a Speak tab in the pop-up menu that results after making a text selection.

[gabester]

The UnDoug wrote:
...in an iOS screen, you an click the little microphone next to the space bar, and you can then start dictating.

I really wish they would make that a physical button. The progress on speech control/text entry is being hampered by the current vendors assuming they should have "always on" listening, "because it's a better experience for the customer."

Maybe so... if you assume it's OK with your customers you sop up as much information as possible about them all the time under the guise of enhancing services to them when really the intent is to maximize cross-sales.

space-time wrote:
I want Safari or Apple News to read out loud to me as I do other tasks around the house.

I would love for a speech-driven browser/news interface. Problem currently is that the speech engine doesn't seem to work in "reader view" so I have to put up with all kinds of garbage being read off the source page (i.e. random hyperlinks and ads and sidebar text) or I have to spend the time and energy selecting just the content from the story I want and specifically going into the menus with questionably accurate press-and-hold touches to get the content I want read to me.

Even with that complaint, this is one area where Apple definitely has a leg up on Android. Speech integration is terrible for dictating/reading content.

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gabester wrote:
[quote=The UnDoug]
...in an iOS screen, you an click the little microphone next to the space bar, and you can then start dictating.

I really wish they would make that a physical button. The progress on speech control/text entry is being hampered by the current vendors assuming they should have "always on" listening, "because it's a better experience for the customer."
Not Apple.

I would love for a speech-driven browser/news interface. Problem currently is that the speech engine doesn't seem to work in "reader view"

Huh? Yes it does.

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Subject says it all. Anyone know if there is an iOS equivalent?

Settings: General: Accessibility: Speech

Turn it on and thereafter you'll see a Speak tab in the pop-up menu that results after making a text selection.
Excellent! But, it just read it out lout at 3x the normal speed. Why?

EDIT: nevermind, there is a Speaking Rate further down in the same Settings page.

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[quote=gabester]I would love for a speech-driven browser/news interface. Problem currently is that the speech engine doesn't seem to work in "reader view"

Huh? Yes it does.
It's entirely possible that I don't understand how to effectively use reader view...

I remember now - my primary iOS device had one of those silica gel beads stuck in the headphone jack, so I couldn't use it effectively. And maybe the iOS version is too old to make this an effective task because I have to do:

1) Load the page I want to read in Safari.
2) Switch to Reader view.
3) Select the content to be read - correctly and carefully, one false tap and I get only a word instead of paragraphs!
4) Carefully tap again to get the menu, hit the ... for more options to get the speak text option.

I'd much prefer a tool that lets me load in hyperlinks, understands what constitutes the primary text on the page, and reads it off to me.

I've messed with Accessibility settings several times to no avail. Perhaps you could direct me to a tutorial or some resource online that actually makes this useful?

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gabester wrote:
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[quote=gabester]I would love for a speech-driven browser/news interface. Problem currently is that the speech engine doesn't seem to work in "reader view"

Huh? Yes it does.
It's entirely possible that I don't understand how to effectively use reader view...

I remember now - my primary iOS device…
Sorry—I thought you were referring to macOS. Is there a "reader view" for iOS?

Select the content to be read - correctly and carefully, one false tap and I get only a word instead of paragraphs!

It's a bit of a pain, but I find that once I select something, just pulling down the right-side selection bar causes entire paragraphs or a section to be selected.