Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for the onscreen and external keyboards and choose to have iPad speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.
How to Make Your iPad or iPhone Read eBooks Aloud
Audiobooks are fun to listen to during a commute, or a jog, or any time your hands are busy, but they often cost a lot and you can’t always find an audiobook edition for your current book. This is really the only step you have to take; you can have Siri read an ebook aloud by swiping down with two fingers from the top of the screen the next time you have one open.
You don’t want your iDevice to go to sleep mid-sentence, so your final step will be to turn off Auto-Lock. Find the Auto-Lock option under the Display and Brightness menu, and set it to Never.
How to Turn e-Books into Audio Books
Luckily, there are apps out there that can turn any word-based document — including e-books and PDFs — into audio book equivalents. Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, is capable of reading any text aloud. Highlight a selection, tap the Speak menu that pops up, and hear Siri read it aloud. Open an e-book, drag two fingers from the top of the screen toward the bottom, and access a menu that will have Siri continuously read the book until she is told to stop.
How to Get Ebooks to Read Aloud on iPhone or iPad: 12 Steps
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How to Make Apple Books Read Aloud To You?
Makes sense: a book-like interface that reads out aloud to your kids as they listen to their bed-time stories. Interestingly, quite a lot of these books also highlight the words that are being read out so it is easier for the kids to follow. Here’s how to make iBook read out any book that’s capable of a read-aloud function:
The page-turning can be controlled (defaults to automatic turning as the reader finishes reading a page).
From here, it’s hard to actually navigate but if you make it to the book, you can select the paragraph and the iPhone/iPad starts reading it out loud.
Make your iPhone read aloud to you
It’s not a perfect replacement for Audible, though, since AI does the reading instead of an actual living, breathing human. In testing, the Speak Screen setting worked with both iBooks and Kindle apps. It also worked with Safari, Chrome and the Google search app, but the every word on the screen gets read, from headlines and bylines to photo captions and time stamps. With the Times app, Speak Screen skipped the headline, byline and date stamp and started in at the beginning of the article.
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