Speak It! is an application for iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad which lets you enter text via the regular keyboard and then speak the words via the built-in speaker, or save them to an audio file to email to others.
For users who need text-to-speech capabilities for their device, but don’t need or want any interface other than the keyboard, Speak It! can be a very inexpensive AAC tool.
Text can be paused and resumed while it is speaking, and the generated audio can be saved to a file and emailed to others. Pre-typed text can also be saved to a “saved phrases” board and quickly selected to be spoken – the iPhone/iPod Touch interface has the saved phrases board on a separate screen due to space limitations, but the iPad implementation shows saved phrases and saved audio files down the left of the screen in landscape mode.
Speak It! for iPad shows saved phrases and audio files on the main screen in landscape mode.
Speak It! comes with four built-in voices: a male and female voice with American and British accents. Other high quality voices including French, German, Italian, and Spanish voices, can be purchased from within the application for just US$0.99 each.
The Speak It! app costs US$1.99 from the iTunes App Store. It is localised in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
- Ricky Buchanan
atmacjournal April 18, 2010 at 10:35 pm
New ATMac post: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/dvLnIl
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jcast April 19, 2010 at 12:16 am
RT @atmacjournal: New ATMac post: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/dvLnIl
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kevinrj April 19, 2010 at 2:37 am
RT @atmacjournal: New ATMac post: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/dvLnIl
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rogeratpluk April 19, 2010 at 7:18 am
Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone | ATMac http://goo.gl/fb/SZSOu
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ppatel April 19, 2010 at 11:40 am
@blacktelephone You might perhaps find this useful for S. Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/dvLnIl
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Libby April 19, 2010 at 2:16 pm
A friend of mine, who has Cerebral Pallsy, uses this as a backup communication system. It’s great! Simple, cheap and effective.
Libby April 19, 2010 at 2:18 pm
A friend of mine, who has Cerebral Pallsy, uses this as a backup communication system. It’s great! Simple, cheap and effective. It doesn’t have “fancy” features like word prediction, but the voice is clear and pleasant. Great programme!
Ricky Buchanan May 11, 2010 at 11:40 am
@Libby: Thanks for the information – it’s useful to know it works in real life for some people at least!
jonathanchacon April 19, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/dqpBRm #a11y
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bgilormini April 20, 2010 at 1:03 am
Keyboard based text to speech for iPad Touch/Phone http://bit.ly/aKEZoj
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wchingya April 21, 2010 at 12:41 am
RT @atmacjournal: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone ~ http://bit.ly/dvLnIl –looks handy!
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swimsy April 21, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Speak It!: Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/chZtvw #a11y #AxS
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TheGamette89 April 21, 2010 at 11:08 pm
RT @swimsy – Speak It!: Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/chZtvw #a11y #AxS
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gacilu April 24, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://bit.ly/bPTksw
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phvrieler April 28, 2010 at 7:58 pm
A cheap program for a change: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://tinyurl.com/y7fboqb
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BlindBeautiful April 28, 2010 at 10:47 pm
RT @phvrieler A cheap program for a change: Speak It! Keyboard-based Text to Speech for iPad/iPhone http://tinyurl.com/y7fboqb
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