Speak It Text to Speech Reader

SpeakIt is text to speech for everything you type or paste, and for your PDFs, books, web pages and scans: it reads them aloud with your phone's own voices and keeps them in one private Library. No ads, no account, and it reads offline once a voice for the language is on your phone.

Bring text in

• Share text from any app, or pick "Read with SpeakIt" in another app's text menu.

• Read a web page from its link: share it from your browser or paste it, and SpeakIt keeps the article.

• Books and documents: EPUB, FB2, Word (DOCX and DOC), RTF, ODT, PDF, TXT, HTML and Markdown, checked and corrected before saving. Scanned PDFs with printed text are read too, and password-protected PDFs open with their password. E-books keep their chapters.

• Scan printed pages with the camera, pick photos or share screenshots, up to 20 at once as one text: it is recognized on your phone and can be corrected first. Latin and Russian letters are read on their own; Greek, Arabic and Hebrew once chosen; Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari after a one-time download. Not handwriting. Save a scan as a PDF.

• Record your voice: recordings stay in your Library and as M4A files in Music/SpeakIt.

Listen

• Keeps reading with the screen off, with Pause and Resume in the notification.

• Picks up where you left off in every document and book.

• Step by sentence, drag to any point, or choose "Listen from here".

• The words being read are highlighted and the page follows them.

• Speed from 0.5× to 2×, remembered for each item; a sleep timer from 5 minutes to 2 hours.

• Chapters, search across a whole book, and text size, spacing and a serif font for reading, in light or dark.

• Save a text of up to about four minutes as a WAV sound file, or share it as sound (not a whole book).

Your Library

• All, Phrases, Recordings and Documents; pin, sort and search.

• Play a selection of phrases and recordings in a row.

• Show a phrase in the largest letters your screen holds, for the person opposite.

• Practice cards: give a phrase a second side, such as its translation, and practise with a deck that speaks each side in its own language.

• Home-screen widgets: record in one tap and play it back, and put phrases on your home screen to say with one tap.

Voices and languages

• Uses your phone's own text-to-speech voices, Google's, Samsung's or another's: preview them and pick one. Voice quality depends on your phone.

• A text in another language is read in that language when your phone has a voice for it.

Translate

• Translate text on your phone between 59 languages, each downloaded once; listen to, copy or save the result. Pairs without English go through English.

• Translate what you type or paste in place and listen to it, or hear both languages in turn, sentence by sentence, each in its own voice.

• Conversation: take turns speaking or typing, and SpeakIt translates and says it aloud.

Made for phones and tablets

• On tablets, upright and sideways: a side menu, and your Library beside what you are reading.

• Every screen is tested at twice the normal text size.

Privacy and price

• No analytics. SpeakIt has no server and never uploads what you read, scan, translate or record; it goes online itself only to fetch a page whose link you give it. Google's parts that recognize a text's language, scan and translate send Google usage diagnostics, never your text.

• Free: type, share, record, listen and correct, with no ads. Full Access adds file import, Scan and Translate, and you can try each first. With TalkBack on, Full Access is included. If Full Access ends, everything you made stays readable and playable.