Text Talker Subtitles Reader
Reads TV and Movie Subtitles
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Do you have trouble reading the subtitles of movies, TV shows or Internet videos, perhaps due to low vision / blindness or a reading disability? Or perhaps you'd like to focus on the on-screen action instead of racing to read every subtitle before it disappears. This app uses OCR (optical character recognition) and TTS (text to speech) to look for subtitles and read them out loud through the iPhone speaker or headphones.
How to use: Just run the app! It starts looking for text right away, and will read out loud anything it finds. If the app starts reading a bunch of random text, you can shake the phone to make it shut up. Put your hand over the camera to temporarily keep it from talking, or switch to another app.
For best results, use it in an area that doesn't have extra visual distractions like digital clocks or AV equipment with lots of numbers and letters. If watching a video on a computer or laptop, maximize the video to full screen and let the status indicator fade away. Some scenes may have other text on screen that the app might try to also read; heavily stylized text might not be recognized. The app attempts to deduplicate the recognized text to reduce text being read more than once, though you may still get some duplication. For longer videos, you might want to use a tripod or phone holder.
Use the gear icon to change options and view help text.
You can also use this to read closed captions. Perhaps you're watching a show with the volume off and only closed captioning turned on. You can use your iPhone and AirPods to have captions read just to you privately, so as to not disturb other people nearby.
The In-App purchase items are only for the totally optional Tip Jar.
For Support please visit http://ideaeng.com/texttalker
This app does NOT record any user data, nor photos, nor video nor sound.
This TextTalker should not be confused by the similarly named Text Talker by Smartbox Assistive; despite the names, they two programs are extremely different in use and should hopefully not confuse the intended audience..
Screenshots in the App store description use Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 content originating from UniverseToday.com
Ratings & Reviews
Changes to deduplication and positional logic. Changes to settings screen. Change to handling case where app does not have permission for the camera.
The developer, Mark Bennett, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mark Bennett
- Size
- 1.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tip Jar $0.99 $0.99
- Tip Jar $25 $24.99
- Tip Jar $5 $4.99
- Copyright
- © New Idea Engineering, Inc.