Talk For Me - Text to Speech 4+

Communication Made Simple

Darrin Altman

Designed for iPad

    • 4.7 • 10 Ratings
    • $2.99

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Description

Communication Made Simple

Great for phone calls and FaceTime and with iOS 17 it now supports Personal Voice.

Talk For Me - Text to Speech will help you to communicate with ease. Type in the main text area or tap one of the six main custom buttons and your iPhone or iPad will talk for you. Need to make a phone call or a FaceTime audio or video call? Automagically the spoken text will be heard on the other caller's phone or iPad when on a call. Want to set up more custom phrases? Swipe up for more pages with custom editable buttons. Need even more? Save phrases in an archive database. This is great for saving partial sentences or for temporary text in preparation for a phone call or meeting. A quick swipe left, select a sentence from your archive, and it will appear in the main window ready for you to complete or use. Can you type fast or need to spell a word? Turn on the Auto Speech Function to have every word or letter spoken as you enter it. Together with keyboard shortcuts, predictive text and your custom phrases, this app will allow you to communicate with ease.

• Support for English (US, AU, UK), Chinese (CN, HK, TW), Dutch (BE, NL), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (BR, PT) & Spanish (MX, ES).
• NEW Create a Personal Voice with iOS 17 and use the voice in the app.
• NEW Send Speech to an Active Call on the iPhone and use for FaceTime calls on iPhone & iPad (Yes, use for phone calls!)
• NEW Visual Representation Showing the Text as it is Spoken. The text is highlighted as it is spoken which is useful when on a phone call and for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
• No active internet connection needed.
• Ad Free
• Multiple Voices, including the Alex voice
• Enhanced Quality Voices***.
• Support for Dynamic Type****
• Siri Shortcuts Support
• Auto Speech Function (Optional) - Every word is spoken as you enter it.
• Semi-Auto Speech Function - Use the keyboard return key to speak the text you typed.
• Punctuation Aware - Use Commas, Question Marks, Exclamation Points
• Undo Feature - Unintentional taps of the clear button are easily remedied.
• Slider to adjust the speech rate.
• Pause Button to stop speaking as needed.
• Quick Access Customizable Buttons (swipe up)
• Long press any custom button to set a descriptive title, custom phrase, and set the desired voice.
• Easily create a separate database of pre set phrases or sentence fragments that can be sent to the main window.
• Quick access to your archive. (swipe left)
• Portrait and Landscape Orientations
• Large buttons for easy use.

Please rate the app in the App Store. Go to MobileTouchTech.com for assistance and feature requests. Be careful to properly enter your email when using the Contact page as that will be my only way to reply. Or email me directly at darrin@MobileTouchTech.com.

*** To use the enhanced quality voices, on your iOS device, open the Settings app, go to Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > and tap to download the enhanced version of the desired voice. If your chosen voice has both an enhanced and premium option, download the premium option as that will be used.

**** Dynamic Type: Open the Settings app. Go to Display & Brightness > Text Size and adjust the text to your preferred size. If you want even larger sized text, go to General > Accessibility > Large Text and turn that to On.

What’s New

Version 1.14

This update adds support for Personal Voice in iOS 17. Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
10 Ratings

10 Ratings

Ol' Grey ,

Talk for me - text to speech

As a Laryngectomee, I can thoroughly recommend the capability and simplicity of this app. Being able to archive personalised long sentences with a single word (or more) topic, is brilliant; as is the ability to select a variety of male or female voice options with simple instructions in the App Store description as to how to achieve that. Within minutes I was able to set-up numerous sentences topics: welcome, be patient, enough about me, how are you; and Nurse assistance requests for: medications, shower, toilet, pyjamas, etc. If I, at 75, can navigate my way around this app so confidently, quickly and easily, I’m sure you will too. I will be bringing it to the attention of my Speech Pathologist Clinicians this coming week. 10/10 Darrin Altman (Developer) for making this app available. You are a true humanitarian. Thank you. John H.

fixative XYZ ,

Absolute life saver

I’m Autistic, & when I get very overwhelmed, I can’t talk out loud. I recently had to go to a hospital’s emergency department when this happened, & used this app to speak with the medical staff.

It worked well. There were a few times when the staff asked me another question while I was typing my response to the previous question, but that’s more on them than the app.

I also have vision problems, & the fact the default buttons are large is super helpful. Being able to save phrases is also a life saver.

I can’t thank the dev enough for not only making a great accessibility app, but also making it super cheap & without ads! It’s rare for that to happen nowadays.

uifgty ,

Very useful app

This is a great app for those who have lost speech. I use it after having a laryngectomy and l have recommended it to others in similar situations. It is particularly useful for storing ‘emergency’ sentences for use when vocalisation fails and a writing pad is not available.
Excellent resource for those in need.

App Privacy

The developer, Darrin Altman, 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.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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