How to 'catch' the iPhone to read for you?
Are you bored of reading dozens of pages of text? Do you feel tired when you have to stare for hours on the phone screen? Do you want to practice your listening skills? Open the reading function on your iPhone and "catch" them to read to you!
Text reading feature on iPhone is a pretty good feature but is a little known, this feature allows your iPhone device to read for you articles on websites, books, texts, messages . This feature is able to read almost any text and character you want. This is definitely a great feature if you want to hear what you read.
To enable text reading on iPhone, go to Settings -> General .
Choose Accessibility
Finally, in the Vision section, go to Speech section .
Here, you will have a few choices as follows:
- Speak Selection: This section will help the device read words and texts that you have blackened.
- Speak Screen: This section helps the device read almost every display on your device screen.
- Highlight Content: This section helps the device to illuminate the content of words or sentences that you have blackened.
- Typing Feedback: This section includes a number of special reading features such as reading characters, reading automatic corrections, word prediction . You can customize as you like.
- Voices (Voice): You can adjust the language for the device mentioned in this section like English, German, Italian . (However, there is no Vietnamese in the current IOS version), besides you have can customize voice like male voice, female voice, siri voice .
- Speaking Rate: Drag the horizontal bar to adjust the read speed of the device.
- Pronunciations: You can catch a dictation device or spell some difficult words in this section.
After activating the text reader feature, simply highlight any words or paragraphs you want, then select Speak as the device will start reading for you. If you don't want to listen anymore, just press Pause (Pause)
For the Speak Screen function, you need to place 2 fingers on the items displayed on the screen you want to read, then drag down. At this time, the device's voice will sound, and on the screen of the phone will appear a control panel that allows you to adjust the speed of reading, rewinding, backing or stopping.
What are you waiting for, get started and try it now! Wish you have a good time with this feature!
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