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Those who are low on vision or have no vision can read the texts on iPad and iPhone with the help of Accessibility. Operating phones is a difficult task for those who are physically disabled, but accessibility can help them. In the accessibility section, there is a Spoken Content feature available that can read the written words of the screen or any opened page. If it’s a useful feature for you, then here is how you can enable and use it

How to Enable the Speak Selection

Open “Settings.”

Click on “Accessibility.”

Press on “Spoken Content.”

Toggle On the “Speak Selection.”

How to Use the Speak Selection

Move to the text that you want to head loud.

Click on the text and highlight that text by drag it.

Few pop-up features will come out.

Click on the “Speak” icon.

How to Enable Speak Screen

If you do so much reading and spend so much time on iBooks or any other reading app, the Speak Screen feature will be impressively helpful for you. It will read the entire screen for you.

Open “Settings.”

Click on “Accessibility.”

Click on “Spoken Context.”

Toggle On the “Speak Screen” feature.

How to Use the Speak Screen

Slide down by two fingers from top to below.

You can manage the speed, play, pause, forward, backward.

How to Enable the Speech Controller

The speech controller feature is a complete control panel that stays on the screen to control the speech. You can expand it on your iPad and iPhone device and control it by play and pause, forward and backward buttons.

Open “Settings.”

Click “Accessibility.”

Click on “Spoken Content.”

Click “Speech Controller.”

Toggle On the “Show Controller.”

Click on “Long press” or “Double-tap.”

Click on “None,” “Read All Content,” and “Speak on Touch” from the Double-tap menu.

How to Enable the Highlight Content with Spoken Text

If you want to read the Highlighted Content as you highlight it.

Open “Settings.”

Click “Accessibility.”

Click “Spoken Content.”

Click “Highlight Content.”

Toggle On to turn on.

Click on “Words,” “Sentences,” or “Words and Sentences” to speak when highlighted.

Click on Underline or the Background Colour to choose the style of highlight.

Click on the “Word Colour” section if it is available.

Click on “Colour” to highlight words.

Click “Back.”

Click the “Sentence Colour” option if available.

Click the “Colour” option to highlight the sentences in the same.

How to Manage Typing Feedback Settings

Open “Settings.”

Click “Accessibility.”

Click “Spoken Content.”

Click “Typing Feedback.”

Toggle on “Character” and the “Character Hints.”

Click on + and – key to adjust the voice feedback needs to be delayed after selecting the character.

Toggle the “Speak Words” option to speak the whole written word.

Toggle the “Speak-Auto-text” option to “auto-correct” and also “auto-capitalization” while typing.

Toggle the “Hold Speak Pronunciations” option to click and hold while typing prediction to be spoken.

How to Change the Speaking Rate for Spoken Text

Open “Settings.”

Click “Accessibility.”

Click “Spoken Content.”

Slide the slider right or left to increase and decrease the speed of speaking.

These features are some major slots of Spoken Content on iPad and iPhone. In every device, these features are available. You can enable and disable all these features in the same procedure.

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