A lot of people like Apple products because they are very easy to use and easy to make accessible depending on your situation. But can they read your texts out loud?
Yes, Apple iPhones are able to read your text out loud making it easier to respond to text quicker.
Now that we know you can make your iPhone more accessible by making it read your texts, keep reading to find out how you do it.
Can an iPhone Read Your Texts Out Loud?
Apple wanted to make their iPhones very accessible to everyone. To do this, they can up with a feature called Spoken Content.
Spoken Content is in your settings under the accessibility option. This option allows you to have your texts read.
Turning on this setting is pretty easy! Keep reading to find out how to do it!
Make Your iPhone Read Your Texts
Turning on this setting is very easy. Simply go to your settings app and then click on the accessibility options once in there, click on the Spoken Content option.
Once the Speak Content option is open, you will see all sorts of options.
This will make your listening experience the best it can be.
Some of the options are (taken directly from Setting> Accessibility> Spoken Content):
- Speak Selection: if you turn this on, a button will show up when you highlight text. Hit the button, and Siri will read the highlighted words.
- Speak Screen: Siri will tell you what is one the screen if you have this option on.
- Speech Controller: This option allows you quick access to the speak screen.
- Highlight Content: This option will highlight the text as Siri speaks it. This allows an easy follow-along time.
- Typing feedback: depending on the options you turn on, things will be read out loud while you type.
- Speak Words: Words will be spoken while you type.
- Speak Auto-text: Auto corrections will be read out loud.
- Hold to Speak Predictions: while typing, predictions will be read out loud.
- Voices: you can choose a voice that is best for you, pick something that would not annoy you and is soothing to listen too.
- Speaking Rate: you can choose how fast or how slow you want the text read to you.
- Pronunciations: you can assist Siri with how to pronounce certain things.
After you have all the settings turned on that you want, there are different options for hearing the text.
Speech Controller: This option allows you quick access to the speak screen.
Highlight Content: This option will highlight the text as Siri speaks it. This allows an easy follow-along time.
Speak Words: Words will be spoken while you type.
Speak Auto-text: Auto corrections will be read out loud.
Hold to Speak Predictions: while typing, predictions will be read out loud.
What Device Can I Use to Listen to My Texts?
So now we know the Apple iPhone can read your texts out loud!
But, how do we listen to these texts? Do you have to have a specific thing to listen to them?
Keep reading, to see the different options for listening to Siri read to you!
iPhone Speaker
The simplest way to listen to Siri speak is just by your phone’s speakers. All you have to do is have Siri talk and you can listen.
The information she reads will come out of the speakers on the bottom of your phone, kinda like you are talking on speaker phone.
This option is gonna be the easiest. But will not provide any privacy to what she is reading. If you want privacy the best option is through headphones.
Headphones
Headphones will make listening to your texts easier; it doesn’t matter how the headphones connect to your device.
While Bluetooth or cordless ones provide a hands-free approach, if you like wired ones, they will work the same.
Apple CarPlay
Apple CarPlay is a great option for when you are in the car and get a text message.
You can simply have Siri read it out loud over the speakers of your car.
When driving, texting is one of the most dangerous things you can do, really looking at your phone in general.
This option cuts out the need to look at your phone, and instead, you can listen to the test and then speak to Siri for a response if one is needed.
In Conclusion
Having an iPhone means having an accessible device that you can mold to meet your specific needs.
Depending on how you want certain things read, you can teach Siri how to do it. By simply going into the settings and choosing the settings best for you.
You can customize your read-out-loud experience anywhere from the speed Siri reads your texts, to the voice she uses to read them, and even how you want certain things pronounced.
Listening to your texts can also come in different forms. You can listen through the speakers on your phone, the speakers in your car, or from Bluetooth-compatible hearing devices.
