Thank you. I was trying to decide to buy or not to buy an apple product for my grandmother to use because she just had surgery on her face for cancer and cant talk and its making her very depressed. And i wanted to use this funtion to be able for her to type and the device say it for her!
You saved my college career. This will help with all the reading for my classes. Not all books have audio available so this will save me time 😊😊 Thank you
They, thanks for the help. I had eye surgery a while back and sometimes it’s really hard to read small and or digital text. Your page is super helpful. I appreciate you! Thanks Again Steven
Thanks for a very helpful video. I still use my iPod to listen to audiobooks, BARD, Audible etc. but I also have an iPhone 7 and iPad Pro. I love and rly pretty heavily on my iDevices. I usually use speak selection or speak screen. Wasn’t aware of the speech controller, so thanks for that info. Will try that out. Hope your finger heals soon. No need to apologize. Take care.
😊😊Dear brother, can you tell me if the screen reader can be installed in Bangladeshi language ie Bengali language in iphone text to speak? I really enjoyed watching your video and I would be very grateful if you could answer the question I asked you. thank you
Thanks for the helpful video! I want to know how to make frequent corrections a default suggestion and how to set automatic capitalization after punctuation. currently, it does capitalize the first letter, then makes it lowercase as soon as the dictation stops. It also puts upper case in the middle… And leave it there! So frustrating!
SAM, U da MAN! I have been using Tet to Speech on my iPad and MacBook Pro for sometime and mening to stronlysuggest that you do an episode on this great iOS feature. POW! You picked up my vibe and more. You showed features I did not know about. I am sending you a High Five. Be safe. Be well. Grazie. Merci. Danke.
Any way to start “speak screen” from any section of an article and then read all the way through? There seems to be only 2 modes: 1) start from beginning and read to end 2) use hand to start anywhere, BUT WILL ONLY READ THAT PARAGRAPH. Is there any way to use finger pointer to start in middle of article and continue reading to end. (Ie for 23 page articles: to reread a page or two in the middle. Or go from middle to end)
I use this a lot really useful function. I’m quite new to voiceover and find it very challenging do you have any videos of voiceover that start from the beginning thank you for your help and information you provide us with really grateful.
Hi.Really appreciate all your videos!! I have been having some difficulty with speak screen as when i swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers, it doesnt start to speak whereas speak selection is turned on.Any idea why or any tips to try?Also is there a dedicated video for voiceover training and all the motions to learn as i dont have anyone around to help me with these things and there arent really training centres where i live in India. Anyways, thank you so much for all the helpful videos!!You have no idea what a great impact you have made in my life!
Thanks for the video! It was very easy to follow and gave practical advice. As a person with partial sight, I am continually looking for things to make my life a little easier. I have subscribed as well 🙃
Great information! Do you know how to make read aloud continuously? Some books or articles in pdf get through a few paragraphs and then returns to the beginning of the book or article. When this happens I lose where I was before the reader restarted. So glad I found your channel because I am lost. This is all new to me.
That's just my little pocket magnifier. A 10X pocket magnifier from Eschenbach. I've made several videos about it and you can find it in my Amazon shop , listed on my website and in the description of all of my videos.
As much as the speech controller gets in the way at times, I wish Apple would let you control the opacity of that since the Zoom controller lets you change the opacity of it.
In the iPhone 11 you can control opacity if you have the Speak Screen turned on. The caveat is that it is a slide bar for opacity and I have had no success in moving the slider up but by a few percentage points from the default of 35% to 40%.
Wonderful video. Thank you. I'd love it if you could explain how Windows 10 Narrator works in your clear-cut manner. I've tried to use but given up. Also, I'd like to echo the requests of others below for an Android tutorial.
Tysm bc I am sick I can’t talk it hurts my voice is gone if I try to talk it hurts so I have to type and I wanna talk to my lil sis she can’t read that much
Hi Sam I have been subscribed for quite a while now. I don’t think I’ve ever commented before though. Yours was one of the first blind/low vision channels that I found. Really enjoy your reviews and tutorials. Don’t need voice over as yet, but it was great to find these other options I can use.
Thank you for this! I was thinking about starting a channel as I’m a legally blind full time homeschooling mom. Super psyched for this info about text to speech.
If I remember correctly, on iOS you have the little semi transparent floating control button and on android it’s the actual button down in the navigation bar. I can’t stand semi transparent buttons, they’re so hard to see. So I guess I prefer the actual button that doesn’t move.
Do you know if there is way to read an Electronic books from the Libby App (App that lets you read books from library for free). Right now when I use the voice over or spoken content from IOS, it only reads the navigation bar but not that actual page.
I did not mean to turn voice control on. I have seizures and it must have happened then but I can not even open my iPhone open with my security code . How can I get phone open so I can even get to security without getting passed this
Just subscribed! Would any of these options be able to read photo images? My dad is having trouble reading the mail, and wondered if taking a photo of the mail would work.
I followed your instruction to do text to speech; accessibility, voiceover on. Now phone has gone crazy. I lost all features that I am used to. How do I get my iPhone back pls? No phone no life.
You can tell Siri to turn VoiceOver off. Or, if you touch a number and it reads it out loud, you need to then double tap on the screen with one finger to choose it. Remember that you shouldn’t turn a feature like VoiceOver on unless you know how to use it.
Hi. So I enabled the Speak Selection on my iPad and it still doesn’t read aloud my selected text when after I click on Speak. It works on my iPhone but not my iPad Air Any suggestions?
Hi! Have you tried the Kindle for iPad app recently? I’m wondering if Amazon disabled comparability with the two finger swipe. All I get now is the error message: No speakable content can be found on the screen. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I don’t want to have to touch the screen. I would like to ask my phone to find some information on a topic and read it out Without having to touch my screen at all??
Hi Sam, I have a question I hope you can help. I cannot find the Vietnamese language on the voice over for iPhone. Do you know where can I find it and download it for the iPhone? So I can use the Vietnamese language voiceover to read Vietnamese. Thank you for your help in advance. best to you and stay safe.
I have a question, is there a way to loop the text to speech? Like for example i used text to speech on this comment, is there a way to continously loop it?
If you mean, is there a way to have it continuously record, no. The problem is that even if you keep talking, eventually it will stop listening and stop recording. There is no way to change that.
Great video Sam! I switched to IPhone recently ( used but still great) and I love it but I miss @voice Android program that I could use to read articles. I will try the options I learned from your video but is there a way to slow the speech rate or substitute it with TTY Acapelavoices on IOS? Hope you and your family are safe and well! UPDATE: ok, by following your instructions and not being lazy I answered my own questions but The video really did answer nagging questions for me!
@@marknoahsotelo316 I-Phones don't come with the Acapella speach synthasizer unfortunately. However, Apple has a Dectalk like synthasizer with Fred and Victoria as it's voices. I use Fred on both IOS and MacOS with a speach Rate of 30%. Much easier to read. You might want to try that. Anybody could.
This is crazy. I can't even get into my phone. Logged me out. Face recognition stopped working. Keeps speaking number I type but not registering. This is extremely frustrating.
Speak screen doesn’t seem to be working. I have it on, I swipe down with two fingers from the top but it doesn’t read anything out loud. Like there’s no sound. Any help?
Please I need help... I downloaded the @voice , TTS Reader app, it was reading aloud but just today it stopped pronouncing the words when reading .... It's reading aloud but letter by letter and not the full words.... Please how can I fix it I'm using Android
If there’s something wrong with the phone, you may need to do a factory reset to try and fix the problem. However, if it’s just that you’re not sure how to use the phone while voiceover is turned on. That can be a problem as well. Remember that you can always tell Siri to turn on and off voiceover
Good topic. I always wondered about the speech to text options on the iOS side of things. Voice over would be overkill for someone like me and I would just need to select certain types of text to read.
@@theblindlife hey Sam now that we're on the subject of text to speech readers have you noticed that the selective speak feature on Android for some reason does not read on UA-cam comments section lately unless you get a reply? I used to use it all the time but apparently on one of the updates now it doesn't read in says no text found. I hope they find a remedy to this problem soon.
No, I hadn’t noticed that but it doesn’t really surprise me. The quirkiness of android screen readers is what has driven me over to the Darkside. I’m using an iPhone now for my daily driver simply because voiceover is more reliable. In my opinion that is.
@@theblindlife yeah, I hear you. Lucky for me I do not absolutely need screen readers that is part of the reason I like the select to speak function. That in the read aloud app makes my life so much better especially in these times.
If you have VoiceOver turned on and you have the captions turned on, click on the video player as the video is playing. If it doesn’t read the captions out loud then it’s probably not going to work.
Tysm. Now I can listen to Wattpad stories
YOOO THATS EXACTLY WHY I CAME HERE THOUGH😳😳😳
@@Peaceofmind771 howwww tho i can’t figure it out
YOOO WE ALL CAME HERE AT THE SAME TIME LOL
we all came here for the same thing no way!
THATS WHY I AM HERE
Thank you. I was trying to decide to buy or not to buy an apple product for my grandmother to use because she just had surgery on her face for cancer and cant talk and its making her very depressed. And i wanted to use this funtion to be able for her to type and the device say it for her!
You saved my college career. This will help with all the reading for my classes. Not all books have audio available so this will save me time 😊😊 Thank you
Thank you for what you are doing. This world is tolerable for people like you.
Onion
The swipe speak is super handy for long emails and news articles!
Thank you!!!! I’ve been trying to figure out the different options for visual assistance forever!
thank you so much I'm dyslexic so I needed this to understand things better
Cool. I use Voiceover for my iPhone, and JAWS for my laptop. I have a home button on my iPhone, it's a 7.
Very helpful. The only feed back was to demo on ipad.
They, thanks for the help. I had eye surgery a while back and sometimes it’s really hard to read small and or digital text. Your page is super helpful. I appreciate you!
Thanks Again
Steven
Thank u for help with the speak screen I needed to turn down the speed
Actually video begins at 1:46. From that point forward it’s 🔥🔥🔥
What can I say, I’m a talker!
Thanks for a very helpful video. I still use my iPod to listen to audiobooks, BARD, Audible etc. but I also have an iPhone 7 and iPad Pro. I love and rly pretty heavily on my iDevices. I usually use speak selection or speak screen. Wasn’t aware of the speech controller, so thanks for that info. Will try that out. Hope your finger heals soon. No need to apologize. Take care.
Sam,
This is great. Can't wait to see your Android version of this! Take care.
I think he already has one from a couple years ago
True, but a lot has changed in Androidl and. 😀
You’re right, I’ll definitely do an updated version for android. Won’t be the next video but maybe the one after. Thanks for the suggestion
😊😊Dear brother, can you tell me if the screen reader can be installed in Bangladeshi language ie Bengali language in iphone text to speak?
I really enjoyed watching your video and I would be very grateful if you could answer the question I asked you. thank you
thank you for making this video, as its the only one that well describes how to use these features and enable them.
Thanks for the helpful video!
I want to know how to make frequent corrections a default suggestion and how to set automatic capitalization after punctuation. currently, it does capitalize the first letter, then makes it lowercase as soon as the dictation stops. It also puts upper case in the middle… And leave it there!
So frustrating!
SAM, U da MAN! I have been using Tet to Speech on my iPad and MacBook Pro for sometime and mening to stronlysuggest that you do an episode on this great iOS feature. POW! You picked up my vibe and more. You showed features I did not know about. I am sending you a High Five. Be safe. Be well. Grazie. Merci. Danke.
Awesome, thanks!
Can it read subtitles on video if played while editing it ??
Any way to start “speak screen” from any section of an article and then read all the way through?
There seems to be only 2 modes:
1) start from beginning and read to end
2) use hand to start anywhere, BUT WILL ONLY READ THAT PARAGRAPH.
Is there any way to use finger pointer to start in middle of article and continue reading to end.
(Ie for 23 page articles: to reread a page or two in the middle. Or go from middle to end)
I use this a lot really useful function.
I’m quite new to voiceover and find it very challenging do you have any videos of voiceover that start from the beginning thank you for your help and information you provide us with really grateful.
Yes, I have a voice over 101 series. If you just search youtube with "VoiceOver 101" or I have a playlist on my channel as well.
Hi.Really appreciate all your videos!! I have been having some difficulty with speak screen as when i swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers, it doesnt start to speak whereas speak selection is turned on.Any idea why or any tips to try?Also is there a dedicated video for voiceover training and all the motions to learn as i dont have anyone around to help me with these things and there arent really training centres where i live in India.
Anyways, thank you so much for all the helpful videos!!You have no idea what a great impact you have made in my life!
I’m so sorry for your pinky!! I’m a new sub and I hope you get better!!
Thank you so much!
Very good video. Thank you for sharing with us.
Great explanation
Thanks for the video! It was very easy to follow and gave practical advice. As a person with partial sight, I am continually looking for things to make my life a little easier. I have subscribed as well 🙃
Thank you very much!
@@theblindlife when I turned it one my phonr crasef
Thanks for doing this. I will be using a couple of these I was not aware of.
Great information! Do you know how to make read aloud continuously? Some books or articles in pdf get through a few paragraphs and then returns to the beginning of the book or article. When this happens I lose where I was before the reader restarted. So glad I found your channel because I am lost. This is all new to me.
You can try the two finger swipe down gesture for a continuous reading
Is there any way u can adjust the speed the robot is talking?
Yes just press settings
I love how you speak and convince people to subscribe you are worth a millions likes and veiws!
What is the tool you were using to see your screen up close on the phone? It looks like it might be helpful. 9:04 9:04
That's just my little pocket magnifier. A 10X pocket magnifier from Eschenbach. I've made several videos about it and you can find it in my Amazon shop , listed on my website and in the description of all of my videos.
As much as the speech controller gets in the way at times, I wish Apple would let you control the opacity of that since the Zoom controller lets you change the opacity of it.
In the iPhone 11 you can control opacity if you have the Speak Screen turned on. The caveat is that it is a slide bar for opacity and I have had no success in moving the slider up but by a few percentage points from the default of 35% to 40%.
Your pleas have been heard
Wonderful video. Thank you. I'd love it if you could explain how Windows 10 Narrator works in your clear-cut manner. I've tried to use but given up. Also, I'd like to echo the requests of others below for an Android tutorial.
Yes, I do need to make a narrator video. Also, I did the android version, you can’t find it on my UA-cam channel.
Tysm bc I am sick I can’t talk it hurts my voice is gone if I try to talk it hurts so I have to type and I wanna talk to my lil sis she can’t read that much
Great videos. Can we see a android version please. Stay safe hope the finger heals quickly.
Coming soon!
Take care of that finger, Sam! I hope you get better soon.
LOL thanks! It’s better already
Hi Sam I have been subscribed for quite a while now. I don’t think I’ve ever commented before though. Yours was one of the first blind/low vision channels that I found. Really enjoy your reviews and tutorials. Don’t need voice over as yet, but it was great to find these other options I can use.
That’s awesome, thank you Mary! And thanks for being a viewer of the channel!
great video!
But why is the? Speak on touch option. That is the hand symbol dimmed for few items.
Thank you for this! I was thinking about starting a channel as I’m a legally blind full time homeschooling mom. Super psyched for this info about text to speech.
You’re very welcome!
Thank you. So much info in short form and quickly.
Please explain how to improve the voice quality
Thank you for that! That was a very informative video!
Thanks u for the great video
Video starts at 2:25
Thx
Both IOS and Android have select to spek. In your opinion, which one do you like better?
If I remember correctly, on iOS you have the little semi transparent floating control button and on android it’s the actual button down in the navigation bar. I can’t stand semi transparent buttons, they’re so hard to see. So I guess I prefer the actual button that doesn’t move.
Great video
Thank you so much. This is definitely going to change my life. Ps I subscribed to your channel. I can’t wait to learn more things from you.
How to unable auto scrolling on books app while using voice over?
Do you know if there is way to read an Electronic books from the Libby App (App that lets you read books from library for free). Right now when I use the voice over or spoken content from IOS, it only reads the navigation bar but not that actual page.
Is this a good option to read books?
I did not mean to turn voice control on. I have seizures and it must have happened then but I can not even open my iPhone open with my security code . How can I get phone open so I can even get to security without getting passed this
That bandage reminds me of my shots (it flit like I’m on fire)
Just subscribed! Would any of these options be able to read photo images? My dad is having trouble reading the mail, and wondered if taking a photo of the mail would work.
If he has an iPhone, tell him to check out an app called Seeing AI. You can watch my videos to learn more about it.
Great explanation. Thank you!
Thanks Sam. Great video!
I followed your instruction to do text to speech; accessibility, voiceover on. Now phone has gone crazy. I lost all features that I am used to. How do I get my iPhone back pls? No phone no life.
You can tell Siri to turn VoiceOver off. Or, if you touch a number and it reads it out loud, you need to then double tap on the screen with one finger to choose it. Remember that you shouldn’t turn a feature like VoiceOver on unless you know how to use it.
Thanks
Wait if your blind how would you know if the Camera is on????
Hi. So I enabled the Speak Selection on my iPad and it still doesn’t read aloud my selected text when after I click on Speak. It works on my iPhone but not my iPad Air Any suggestions?
Try WritingPal free app. Has everything you need for writing .. comes in many different languages
Hi Sam.. can you share how to read content on a flipbook? I have problems on it.. thanks
Hi! Have you tried the Kindle for iPad app recently? I’m wondering if Amazon disabled comparability with the two finger swipe. All I get now is the error message: No speakable content can be found on the screen. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
This was very helpful! Thank you so much!
Thank you
Fantastic channel!!
I don’t want to have to touch the screen.
I would like to ask my phone to find some information on a topic and read it out Without having to touch my screen at all??
Hi Sam, I have a question I hope you can help.
I cannot find the Vietnamese language on the voice over for iPhone. Do you know where can I find it and download it for the iPhone? So I can use the Vietnamese language voiceover to read Vietnamese.
Thank you for your help in advance.
best to you and stay safe.
Unfortunately I just looked it up on the apple website and Vietnamese is not available yet, That stinks!
I have a question, is there a way to loop the text to speech? Like for example i used text to speech on this comment, is there a way to continously loop it?
If you mean, is there a way to have it continuously record, no. The problem is that even if you keep talking, eventually it will stop listening and stop recording. There is no way to change that.
Thanks!! I rely on Siri but it has limitations, I am assuming these functions are on iOs for iPad as well.
Yes
It not working 😅the touch panel is on but when i turn it on it does not make any sounds😢
Subscribed Bro. I was 1st time on your chennel.
Thanks, welcome to the channel!
Great video Sam! I switched to IPhone recently ( used but still great) and I love it but I miss @voice Android program that I could use to read articles. I will try the options I learned from your video but is there a way to slow the speech rate or substitute it with TTY Acapelavoices on IOS? Hope you and your family are safe and well! UPDATE: ok, by following your instructions and not being lazy I answered my own questions but The video really did answer nagging questions for me!
I am not familiar with Android but you might Check out Instapaper. I use it on to read News articles. They have a free option.
Kenneth B Smith thank you!
@@marknoahsotelo316 I-Phones don't come with the Acapella speach synthasizer unfortunately. However, Apple has a Dectalk like synthasizer with Fred and Victoria as it's voices. I use Fred on both IOS and MacOS with a speach Rate of 30%. Much easier to read. You might want to try that. Anybody could.
Ty so much
Thank you! :D
I hope you feeling better ... ramy
10 plus 😛
Voiceover is the best screen reader...
Has not my language, albanian language. is problem...
At least there is Greek
@@DJ_Ichiyo yes, but the greek is not my language...
New supporter here! :) Nice to see your channel sir! :) may the force be with you! :)
Awesome, thank you, and to you!
This is crazy. I can't even get into my phone. Logged me out. Face recognition stopped working. Keeps speaking number I type but not registering. This is extremely frustrating.
Speak screen doesn’t seem to be working. I have it on, I swipe down with two fingers from the top but it doesn’t read anything out loud. Like there’s no sound. Any help?
I am completely blind are use voiceover with my iPhone 6s and iPad Air three
TY SO MUCH I AM SUBING RN😍
It worked
give this man a goddamn oscar already
Lol, thanks
Please I need help... I downloaded the @voice , TTS Reader app, it was reading aloud but just today it stopped pronouncing the words when reading .... It's reading aloud but letter by letter and not the full words.... Please how can I fix it I'm using Android
Message this number on WhatsApp and your problem will be solved +1 (323) 334-1250
I have an iPhone 7 Plus and when voice over is activated it just locks 🔒 up my phone to a point that it’s not usable for my needs
If there’s something wrong with the phone, you may need to do a factory reset to try and fix the problem. However, if it’s just that you’re not sure how to use the phone while voiceover is turned on. That can be a problem as well. Remember that you can always tell Siri to turn on and off voiceover
Thanks this is exactly what I needed!
Good topic. I always wondered about the speech to text options on the iOS side of things. Voice over would be overkill for someone like me and I would just need to select certain types of text to read.
That's exactly why I made the video, to show that there are other options for those who don't need a full-blown screen reader.
@@theblindlife hey Sam now that we're on the subject of text to speech readers have you noticed that the selective speak feature on Android for some reason does not read on UA-cam comments section lately unless you get a reply? I used to use it all the time but apparently on one of the updates now it doesn't read in says no text found. I hope they find a remedy to this problem soon.
No, I hadn’t noticed that but it doesn’t really surprise me. The quirkiness of android screen readers is what has driven me over to the Darkside. I’m using an iPhone now for my daily driver simply because voiceover is more reliable. In my opinion that is.
That being said, I have android for my work phone because it’s a lot more fun than iPhone!
@@theblindlife yeah, I hear you. Lucky for me I do not absolutely need screen readers that is part of the reason I like the select to speak function. That in the read aloud app makes my life so much better especially in these times.
I use speak selection/speak screen along with using the smart invert
(I have issues reading text in normal black on white mode)
How do you get voiceover to read captionson a UA-cam video? I have captions turned on in the menu for videos, but I can’t find where they are.
If you have VoiceOver turned on and you have the captions turned on, click on the video player as the video is playing. If it doesn’t read the captions out loud then it’s probably not going to work.
Yaya so I can make storytelling
Why is it not identifying my pdfs in GoodNotes???
For some reason, screen readers struggle with PDFs.
For some reason whenever I type it reads it out loud. I can’t figure out how to turn it off
Check in the typing settings under talkback. You may have to adjust something.
How did you get a homicide in the sound radio on at on the assistive technology update? Did Josh Anderson call you?
Thank you so much!! 😊 You got a new subscriber!
1:28 take care brother.
Voice over almost broke my iPad
Hi
Tanks me ayudo mucho tu tutorial mate😈
I’m subscribed hope you’re staying safe. Great video
Thanks!
This was a very bad idea on my iPhone 7 Plus dude my phone is all screwed up