Talk For Me - Text to Speech
For iPhone and iPad
Great for Phone Calls and FaceTime
Talk For Me - Text to Speech is fast, simple and will help you to communicate with ease. Uses many of Apple's enhanced voices in several different languages.
Not being able to speak on your own is difficult. Talk For Me - Text to Speech, designed and engineered by a person who lost the ability to speak, seeks to make your life easier. Type in the main text area or tap one of the six main custom buttons and your iOS device will talk for you. Want to set up more custom phrases? Swipe up for more pages with custom editable buttons. Need even more? Save phrases in an archive database. This is great for saving partial sentences. A quick swipe left, select a sentence from your archive, and it will appear in the main window ready for you to complete. Can you type fast or need to spell a word? Turn on the Auto Speech Function to have every word or letter spoken as you enter it. Together with keyboard shortcuts, predictive text and your custom phrases, this app will allow you to communicate with ease.
• NEW Send Speech to an Active Call on the iPhone (Yes, use for phone calls and FaceTime!)
• NEW Create a Personal Voice with iOS 17 and use the voice in the app.
• NEW Visual Representation Showing the Text as it is Spoken
• No active internet connection needed.
• Ad Free
• Multiple Voices*, including the Alex voice**
• Enhanced & Premium Quality Voices***.
• Auto Speech Function (Optional) - Every word is spoken as you enter it.
• Semi-Auto Speech Function - Use the keyboard return key to speak the text you typed.
• Punctuation Aware - Use Commas, Question Marks, Exclamation Points
• Undo Feature - Unintentional taps of the clear button are easily remedied.
• Slider to adjust the speech rate.
• Pause Button to stop speaking as needed.
• Quick Access Customizable Buttons (swipe up)
• Long press any custom button to set a descriptive title, custom phrase, and set the desired voice.
• Easily create a separate database of pre set phrases or sentence fragments that can be sent to the main window.
• Quick access to your archive. (swipe left)
• Portrait and Landscape Orientations
• Large buttons for easy use.
* Languages currently supported are English (US) (AU) (UK), Spanish (MX) (ES), German, French (FR), Dutch (BE) (NL), Chinese (CN) (HK) (TW), Korean, Japanese and Portuguese (BR) (PT).
** Alex is English (US) only. To use the Alex voice you have to first download it to your iOS device. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > English > and select Alex to download the voice.
*** To use the enhanced and premium quality voices, on your iOS device, open the Settings app, go to Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > and tap to download the enhanced version of the desired voice. If the voice you choose has both an enhanced version and a premium, download the premium as that will be used.