Text to Speech - Speaky App Reviews

Could use the ability to read pasted text. Further, I copied a URL and brought it into the app. Instead of reading me the article, it read me the sites privacy policy. Maybe Speaky needs some more time on the drawing board? Because, you know, if I wanted to read a sites privacy policy, I would read the sites privacy policy. But maybe Speaky is right and the privacy policy is far more interesting than the article I came to the site to read. But Speaky doesnt really get to make those decisions. I do. Deleted!

Im a student and I read the NYT online everyday. Unfortunately, I never have the time to read all of the fascinating articles that I save for academic pursuits, personal improvement, and pleasure. Speaks is great because it works well with my Pocket app and allows me to easily find articles that I didnt have time to read. Speaky allows me to multitask efficiently, as I can listen to these articles while driving or walking the dog. Well worth the download.

No such word as pasted. It is past text not pasted text.

Its very useful and very easy to use.

The voice and text highlight are not synchronized.

I spend a lot of time on the go and dont have the luxury of absorbing a lot of great written content online. This app has changed that! It is easy to figure out and use. Now I just preload my content, hit "play" and then drive. Yes, the speaking voices are a little robotic for a large volume of content but it is a minuscule concession for such a great tool.

I just downloaded Speaky via the Starbucks app as a free promo. What drew me to this app was the idea of an app that smartly extracts text from an online news article, Pocket queue, etc and then reads it back to you. Presto! Youve just made your own audio book. Congrats. I did not know this when I first started using the app, but an unintended consequence of this app is that it has turned my Pocket queue into an absolutely enjoyable source of entertainment. My Pocket app no longer sits around to gather digital dust. In other words, I often times will listen to my Pocket queue just so I can use Speaky. Speaky is truly, turning me in to a smarter and more informed human being. Dont listen to the naysayers: there are no robotic overtones here. Each time you start an article, you get to choose from several pleasing English accents, not just Yankee English; I tested the app using the South African accent. A very pleasant to listen to accent, this voice really drew me in to the scientific article I was listening to. It did not distract me at all from my listening. The article was throwing a lot of new ideas and info at me and thus, I was having trouble with the default reading speed; with Speaky to the rescue, I was able to slow down the rate of speech so I could more easily digest what I was listening to. And the "back 15 seconds" feature will come in handy when reading those more technical articles. Imports from your Pocket queue couldnt be any easier. Just give the Speaky app permission to link with Pocket. Then choose your fave Pocket articles and hit "save." Your Pocket articles will now be residing in your Speaky app. Give Speaky a try today!

This app is great it saves me time and gives more knowledge. Highly recommended!!!

I was using it on my iPhone and loved it up until a few days ago when it started messing up and crashing a few minutes into a read. Tried to delete and download again and now it no longer has English-US. Very disappointing

Im always wanting to know about something or wanting to research a place or.... Anything while Im driving. Now I can! Using the microphone feature to search, I can find any article and Speaky will whittle it down to text only and read it aloud to me. FINALLY a driver friendly app. (Just make sure youre doing the copy/extract from Speaky while youre at a stop light!)

I like that this can read articles for me. As a college student, I have found I tend to retain information better if I hear it so this app has been great for research and such. Its easy to customize the voice pace/language. I only wish it could also read articles from news apps. I couldnt seem to link Speaky to read me news articles from the news apps I use. The other thing is the speaking rhythm/ syntax. Since this is a computer algorithm I expected it to sound "automated". The bothersome part is that some words have an accent in odd places (for the US English language). I have found that if I edit extra commas into the text Speaky is reading, it sounds slightly more "natural". All in all, a great app that has helped me out immensely with school and life. Keep up the awesome work!!

Reads the first comment in Reddit, not the main post.

The app works well.But Voice are definitely out of sync in long ms word.Several suggestions are put forward. 1.Please support reading azw3/mobi/epub books and make the app display contents of the book so that listeners can select the chapter. 2.please Provide male voice for chinese. 3.Please support listening to books While listening to music as background sound.

First article I try and read off of a Seeking Alpha investment page is only available on German language. That doesnt help when you speak English. What a waste of time and $4.99! Dont bother with this one.

I love it but there doesnt seem to be an in between between voice speed .5 and .6. .6 seems too fast the .6 is too slow and theres nothing in between them but other than that its great:-)

This app has been a great help to me as I have a reading disability. However, I can not control what and when it reads, it just starts at the beginning of an article and you can not skip ahead or go back with out reading the whole article again. But I still love it.

This app is a multitaskers dream. I love the ability to have speaky read news items, class notes, etc to me while I do something else. Yes!

Speaky is really handy for my commute - I spend 2 hours a day in my car, and this app is helping me get through my backlog of articles I want to read. The webpage "interpretation" isnt always spot-on, but in general it does a good job of capturing the actual article copy. Very good app; looking forward to future releases!

Ive been looking for such an app for the longest time and all previous apps were very disappointing. And then came Speaky. Not quite perfect but more that good for the task. Now I save stories and have the app read them to me later. Hopefully the little annoying bugs will be squashed soon but in the meantime this app has to be on everyones must have list!

I would give this app 5 stars if the highlighted words didnt fall out of sync with the words actually being spoken.