TERRIBLE spelling app – Speaking Spelling Bee Review

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.
Review by Tenochus45 on Speaking Spelling Bee.