Text to Speech - Speaky
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | Sandratra Razafindralambo | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Too busy to read articles from your favorite websites? Sit back, relax, and listen up as news from any website is magically read back at you with adjustable speeds and multiple accents.
How it works? Just link any article in Speaky. It will extract the main content, detect the language and read it out loud to you. You can retrieve content from your favorite websites or from the cloud.
"Articles in your Speaky queue play without an internet connection, so you can breeze through a New Yorker treatise as you ride the subway or catch up on world news on your next international flight." - New York Magazine
"Speaky is a handy tool that helps you multitask by listening instead of reading. Whether it’s an entertaining article on the Web or an important PDF for work, you can give your eyes a rest or just get more done with this intuitive voice reader." - AppAdvice
"The Pocket integration really makes it a lot easier to catch up on those articles you put off on reading." - Lifehacker
Reviews
Easy listening
Ymipaul
I get so much more work done with this app. It takes all my articles and read them at double the speed. Very easy to use as well.
Real time saver
weak tea
Love being able to drop blog posts in and listen to that otherwise might just be tl;dr...
Love it!
MickieDoodle
Use it a lot while driving to customer's sites. I get a lot of "reading" in when reading is impossible. So easy to use!
Super helpful!
Blaeref
Where has this app been all my life? I am a busy professional and often find myself in the car waiting for the next red light so I can read the article that i found on the web but haven't had time to finish reading yet. Speaky reads the article aloud for me while I am driving. I love it! Only con is that speaky reads right through periods with almost no pause. It pauses at commas the way I want it to pause at periods. The pause at commas could be about 2/3 as long as it is. Wish Speaky would pause at periods - or even let me dial in how long to pause at different types of punctuation. Over all a great productivity tool - well worth the $3.99 I spent on it.
Love it, the Best App on my phone.
The-Negotiator
I'm a bit of a slow read, I can now run through blog articles very quickly or anything involving news, love it!
Very useful app!
BRQ53
I love this app! I use it to listen to long articles allowing me to do other things while I listen. I highly recommend this app.
Problem Solved
Cushla69
Allows me to save articles to read later and to multitask. I don't have to carved out time to devoted to long articles. One complaint has developed since I first reviewed Speaky. One at least 3 occasions a foreign language version (German and Romanian) of an English language article is read aloud. Why does this occur, and why isn't there an option to set a default language and/or change the language?
