Speaking Spelling Bee Reviews – Page 3
3/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for Speaking Spelling Bee for iPhone.
Speaking Spelling Bee is paid iOS app published by mpowers LLC
What is he saying?
SMACKER BOY
I don't understand a word this guy is saying! I barely get one word right! I try to respell the words but i always get it wrong. FIX THIS PLEASE!
What's with the ad placement!?
Sherlzgirlz
I can't see my letters when I type because the ad is hung too low, meanwhile there's a 1/2 inch gap between the top of the ad and the top of the screen. Seriously!?
TERRIBLE spelling app
Tenochus45
Bottom line: this app is garbage. Try to find something else. I got this app for fun. I like to play games like this. However, if you are seriously trying to study for a spelling bee I think it would be terrible. The voice reading the words is NOT Siri. Siri is NOT reading the words unless you are running iOS 5. If she was reading the words this app would be amazing. As it is, this male robot voice mispronounces even the simplest of words. It isn't a real person. Just a computer sounding out the letters (this is English. If sounding out the letters was a viable solution then there would be no need for spelling bees, especially with higher level words). When you click "define" to try to determine what word he actually said, sometimes you can only pick out a few words that are intelligible. For example: the word I was supposed to spell was forage (which is somehow an "advanced" word). It sounded nothing like that word. Then when I clicked "define" all I could understand was "cow" and "food". I don't know about you but I don't think of the word forage when I think about cows and food. I think about grazing. I didn't even offer a guess since I was so lost. When I saw forage pop up (more than halfway hidden by the annoying ads) I was dumbfounded and decided to write this review. This is just one of MANY examples. Speaking of the ads. They aren't just banners that might annoy some people (I don't mind those). They start off as banners "docked" at the top of the screen but after less than 30 seconds they slide down to obscure at least half of the word you are in the process of spelling out. That's not so bad. You can hear the guy read the letters you hit. But if you get it wrong you have to guess how it was actually spelled. Not too difficult if you were close, but if you had no idea what he said to begin with, you may have no clue what the word was. This app is garbage. Paying the 99¢ to remove the ads wouldn't help since you can't understand him to begin with. If they ever updated it to have Siri say the words, I wouldn't even complain about the ads trying to force you to pay the people who made it.
Good and bad
Bee nerd
As a former National Bee contestant with some nostalgia, I went straight for the advanced list and was pleasantly surprised at the variety. It got me a time or two, but to be fair, guessing an unfamiliar word (the whole fun of a game like this) is next to impossible with these pronunciations. The bigger problem, though, is that they've shorted 'millennium' its second 'n.'
CANT UNDERSTAND A SINGLE EFFING WORD!!! ?
trixgirl4
The guy voice cannot pronounce any words correctly!!!
Like it. But hate the accent
akhdashd
Hard to understand. And the guy says the words as you type is annoying.
2nd Place!!!
Nancydiaz63
This app is truly amazing and simple. It served me as a study pal for my school's spelling bee. First time I participate... I won second place.
Good app
Musclemanmike
The app is great. It's a fantastic way to sharpen your spelling skills. However, I couldn't give it five stars, because the voice is hard to understand. If they fix that problem, it could "very well be" a perfect five star app.
Alien language
Hd1231
I can barely understand it. It said entrepreneur and it sounded like antropunur. Kind of annoying