SpeakText

SpeakText - Speak & Translate Web pages and Documents

Touch web pages and documents (Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, eBook, Text), copy & paste, key in, then it will speak and translate sentence by sentence.

A must have app to speak & translate web pages and documents, including newspapers and magazines.

SpeakText - Touch web pages and Text documents, copy & paste, key in, then it will speak 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence.

SpeakText for Me - Touch web pages and documents (Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, eBook, Text), copy & paste, key in, then it will speak 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence.

SpeakText for Office - Touch web pages and Microsoft Office, Apple iWork documents, copy & paste, key in, then it will speak 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence.

SpeakText for eBook - Touch web pages and eBook documents, copy & paste, key in, then it will speak 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence.

SpeakText for Web - Touch web pages, copy & paste, key in, then it will speak 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence.

Innovative features

1. Speak aloud 100+ voices and translate 50+ languages sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.

2. Background operation support (keep reading aloud text, document and web pages in the background while using another app.

3. Lock screen support (play, pause, skip a sentence, adjust playback volume and see the sentences list on the lock screen).

4. Exercising and improving your language skills during a bike riding, jogging or walking.

5. Funny bear and human face animations while speaking.

6. Support powerful speaking repeat, pause and speed options.

7. New design UI with 25 themes.

Features

● Speak aloud 100+ voices

The app integrates the system text-to-speech engine, speaks aloud 100+ voices sentence by sentence without internet connection:

Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (China), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (Netherlands), English (Australia), English (Ireland), English (South Africa), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Finnish (Finland), French (Canada), French (France), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Hungarian (Hungary), Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Norwegian (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Russian (Russia), Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand) and Turkish (Turkey).

Please refer to 12. How to add more Text to Speech voices? to add more voices.

Continue speaking when the Apple iPad or Apple iPhone screen is locked.

Speak when the Apple iPhone is set to vibrate only.

You can choose sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.

● Translate 50+ languages

The app supports the Bing Translator translation service that translates 50+ languages:

Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Klingon, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Querétaro Otomi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yucatec Maya.

The service requires internet connection while translating.

Please turn on Wi-Fi while 3G/4G is running slow.

● Optional 70+ enhanced voices (In-App Purchases)

Enhanced Chinese Voices: up to 5 enhanced Chinese voices

Enhanced English Voices: up to 14 enhanced English voices

Enhanced British English Voices: up to 6 enhanced British English voices

Enhanced Japanese Voices: up to 4 enhanced Japanese voices

Enhanced Korean Voices: up to 2 enhanced Korean voices

Enhanced Spanish Voices: up to 6 enhanced Spanish voices

All Enhanced Voices: up to 70+ enhanced voices

Note:

All enhanced voices require iOS 9 (or later).

● Background operation support

The app can keep reading aloud text, documents and web pages in the background while using another app.

● Lock screen support

The app provides the lock screen support that you can play, pause, skip a sentence, adjust playback volume and see the sentences list on the lock screen.

● Lock screen control support demo video

● Exercising and improving your language skills during a bike riding, jogging or walking

The app could read then record (and play the recorded voice) sentence by sentence.

Beep volume control.

It will amplify voice from microphone to earphone and record voice while recording.

You can set the recording period to the times of reading period for each sentence or fixed period.

● Exercising one sentence

Reading then recording one sentence.

Auto repeat function for one sentence.

● Speaking face animation

The app provides funny face animations while speaking.

You can choose bears and humans face animation with two types of mouth each.

You could use the pinch to zoom gesture to change the face size, drag and drop to move to other position and turn on or off the face animations feature.

● Speak & translate the copy & paste or key in text

Key in text from keyboard, or copy words, phrases, and sentences from other App (such as Mail, Pages, Safari,…), the text will be pasted automatically, then it will speak & translate sentence by sentence.

If you copy url (http://...) from other App, and run the app, it will go to the pasted url web site automatically.

You could recall [Starred] text to edit in Key in mode.

The app supports the Apple Wireless Keyboard and iOS split keyboard for Apple iPad.

● Speak & translate the touched words

Speak & translate the touched words on web pages or documents sentence by sentence.

Do not need to type in any text or copy & paste, just touch and hold (long press) words, phrases, and sentences on the screen.

● Speak & translate the whole page from touched words or from the beginning

Speak & translate the whole web or document page from the touched words or from the beginning to the end sentence by sentence.

● Translate the whole web page

After the web page is loaded, tap the [Speak] and [Translate Whole Page] buttons, then it will translate the whole web page.

● Support web pages and multiple document types

Formats supported:

- Web pages

- Microsoft Office: Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx), PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pps)

- Apple iWork: Pages (pages), Numbers (numbers), Keynote (key)

- eBook (epub)

- Text (text, txt), RTF document (rtf)

SpeakText: Web pages, Text, RTF documents

SpeakText for Me: Web pages, Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, eBook, Text, RTF documents

SpeakText for Office: Web pages, Microsoft Office, Apple iWork documents

SpeakText for eBook: Web pages, eBook documents

SpeakText for Web: Web pages

Please note that the iBook eBooks are limited to use inside Apple iBook only.

PDF file format is not supported.

● Tree File Explorer

Expanding and showing sub folders and files in the same view.

Search for files and folders.

Add, Delete, and Rename files and folders.

Copy and Paste to copy and upload files.

Drag & Drop to move files and folders.

Pull down to refresh the tree list.

● Cloud File Explorer

Manage Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud files in tree structure.

Upload and download files.

● Support four ways to open documents

There are four ways to add documents to the app’s “Documents”:

1. Open In...

Open documents from Apple's Mail app attachments (or any App that supports "Open In..." feature), and select "SpeakText" in the "Open In..." menu of the Mail app, then they will be opened and copied to the app's “Documents”.

The app can keep speaking text, documents and web pages in the background while using another app.

But you need to quick the speaking function and back to the main screen to use the "Open In..." feature.

2. Apple iTunes

Connect Apple iPad or Apple iPhone to your computer via USB cable, and then drop your files to the app File Sharing window of Apple iTunes to copy to the app's "Documents".

3. Download file

After the web page is loaded, click the hyperlink of document, then it will be downloaded, opened and copied to the SpeakText app's [Documents].

4. Import documents cloud services

Import documents from the Apple iCloud Drive, Box, Dropbox and Google Drive cloud services.

Please refer to 11. How to import & export iCloud Drive files?.

● Support powerful speaking & translating options

The app provides some powerful options, such as speaking repeat times of each sentence, speaking and translating pause seconds between sentences, speaking speed, popover text font size and paste automatically options.

You could assign repeat times or pause seconds for some specified sentences.

Speaking rate setting by language

Auto repeat function for a sentence.

Speaking rate quick setting while speaking.

● Mark "Starred" to record favorite words

It’s a good way to study foreign languages.

It supports search, delete, and details with speaking & translating features.

● Support bookmarks and home page

Add favorite web pages to "Bookmarks" which supports search and delete features.

● Support URL autocomplete and browser history

Just type a few letters of a website's name or address into the location bar, the autocomplete drop-down will show matching sites from your browsing history, so you find the right web page fast.

● Mail and export translated text

The app translates the key in text, web page and document into a file (pdf), you can mail and export the translated text file.

You could mail the translated text and voice of one sentence.

● Copy translated text

● Highlight words while speaking & translating

The app will highlight word by word for each speaking sentence.

The sentence will also be highlighted on many web pages while speaking. Please note that words with special format may not be highlighted properly.

● Support 10 favorite language setting selections

The app keeps the last 10 language settings automatically.

To add your favorite language setting selection, just set a new language setting. The new language setting will be added to the favorite language setting selections.

● New design UI with 25 themes

● Twitter and Facebook support

● This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad