I find that if I select a new voice, I have to turn the reading off, then on again to get the new voice to start working. The female Siri is too syrupy sweet listen to for long, and most of the other voices are robotic. I have found that the male Siri voice (“Siri voice 1”) is preferable. That will give a Speech option to read aloud just whatever text that you have select, and then stop.Īlso, on in the Spoken Content screen there is a Voices link, for selecting what voice you want to hear. If you want, while you are in the Spoken Content screen you can also turn on Speak Selection. It will also allow you to you toggle between multiple speeds: 1x, 1.5x, 2x, & 1/2x.

That panel will allow you to play/pause/jump forward and back. Also, a little speech control panel will appear. That will activate reading of that page of text. With Speak Screen ON, whenever you are on a page with text (including Kindle or other e-book), you swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. The key step is to go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Spoken Content. This text-to-voice method should work with all of these e-books.ĭirections for iPhone/iPad: A short YouTube video “ How to get your iPhone to read Kindle books aloud” by Kyle Oliver tells you all you need to know. Also, if you search on the subject, there are various sources for free on-line books, including hundreds of thousands titles available through Libby/Overdrive via your public library. Most of us already have text books we have bought from e.g. This is an economics blog, so I will note that this approach saves considerable money versus paying for audio books like Audible, or paying for the Narration option on Kindle. What if you could get your phone or tablet to read Kindle or other text aloud to you? I have recently come across an easy way to do this.

How to make a kindle app read out loud