Speech It
Listen to books & articles
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn EPUBs, PDFs, and web articles into your personal audiobook — with on-device translated listening.
Speech It turns the books and documents piling up on your device into audio you can enjoy anywhere. Import DRM-free EPUBs, PDFs, text files, and web articles, and listen to them read aloud in a natural voice.
Clear your reading backlog during your commute, chores, or walks.
◆ Key Features
- Flexible importing
EPUB / PDF / plain text / web pages by URL / clipboard text. Files can also be opened from the Files app and the share sheet.
- On-device translated listening
Listen to an English book in Japanese and more: translation happens while reading aloud (iOS 18 or later, supported language pairs), with the translation and original shown side by side.
- Background playback
Keeps playing while your screen is locked, with full control from the Lock Screen and Control Center. Playback resumes automatically after interruptions such as phone calls.
- Follow along visually
The current sentence and word are highlighted and kept in view. Tap any sentence to start playback from there.
- Table of contents & bookmarks
Jump between chapters, bookmark individual sentences, and browse bookmarks across your whole library.
- Organized library
Sort books into folders. Your reading position is saved automatically, so you always pick up where you left off.
- Voice customization
Adjust speed (0.5x-2.0x), pick from your device's voices, tune the pitch, and preview voices before choosing.
- Privacy first
Parsing, translation, and speech synthesis all happen on your device. The contents of your books are never sent to a server.
◆ Notes
- DRM-protected e-books are not supported.
- Image-only (scanned) PDFs cannot be read aloud.
- Translation requires iOS 18 or later.
The app shows ads; an optional subscription removes them.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Reading progress is now shown for both the current chapter and the whole book, including on the Lock Screen and in Control Center.
- Playback no longer stops when you return to the library while listening.
- Ads have been introduced. An optional subscription in Settings removes them at any time.
The developer, ColorBoxStudio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Kentaro Majima
- Size
- 7.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 44 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove Ads (Monthly) $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 color box studio