How To Use Speak Screen in iOS 8

How to Enable and Use the Speak Screen Feature in iOS 8. Activate Speak Screen on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, using iOS 8.

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In this episode, How To Use Speak Screen in iOS 8.

A cool feature introduced in iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, is the Speak Screen feature.


Where the entire text-contents on the screen, is read back to you after swiping down with two-fingers from the top to bottom of the screen.

Better still, Speak Screen can also be activated in Siri, by saying the following phrase: “Speak Screen”.

Onwards with a demo to show how it’s done.

Sooooooo, Let's Get Started.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech…

Then; activate Speak Screen by sliding the button to the right, as shown.

Whilst on the Speech window, you might want to choose a different voice instead of the default.

In this demo, Apple’s natural sounding, speech synthesized American English voice was downloaded and used.

It should be noted, you’ll only have the option to download the Alex voice, provided you have one of the following devices listed here.

After selecting an optional voice, open any app containing texts and simply swipe down from the top to bottom of screen, or activate Siri and say the phrase “Speak Screen” to have the contents read to you.

Furthermore; you can use others apps while Speak Screen is active.

The Speak Screen Control Panel can be moved, minimized, or maximized. Use the Control Panel to adjust the speaking rate, move forward or backwards to the next paragraph, pause, play or close Speak Screen entirely, as shown here.

And that’s all there is to it.

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