Tap the switch next to Speak Words to the green 'on' position if you want whole words to be spoken while you're typing.Tap the + and - buttons to set how long character voice feedback should be delayed after you enter a character. Tap the switches to get voice feedback for Characters and Character Hints.Tap a color that you want highlighted sentences to be. Tap a color that you want highlighted words to be. Tap Underline or Background Color to designate the style of sentence highlight if you've selected either Sentences or Words and Sentences from the previous menu.Tap Words, Sentences, or Words and Sentences to decide what kind of highlighted content should be spoken. How to enable highlighted content with spoken textĪs content is being read out to you, you can enable Highlight Content to highlight along as it reads. Tap None, Read All Content, or Speak on Touch under the Long Press or Double Tap menus to decide what either of these actions do when you're using the Speech Controller. Tap the switch next to Show Controller to the green 'on' position. The speech controller is a control panel that lives on your screen that you can expand to help you control speech playback on your iPhone or iPad by playing speech, pausing it, skipping forward and back, or changing the speed. Tap the controls to manage, play/pause, skip forward, touch to speak, and playback speed. Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.If you're into iBooks but have a hard time reading them on your phone, you can enable Speak Screen and it'll read out the entire screen to you.

Tap the Speak button in the menu that pops up.

Tap and hold on the text and drag the highlight to surround all of the text you want to be read aloud if it's not all highlighted already.

Navigate to the text you want to be read aloud.

Speak Selection allows you to select bits of text on a screen to be read aloud to you.

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