Press the home button for a while to activate Siri and give the command Speak Screen or simply swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen. Once the speak screen feature is enabled, open up a webpage or e-book on your iPhone. It also gives you control options like reading speed, Play/Pause, forward and backward. On doing this, Siri will read the complete content available on the screen. With Speak Screen, you can swipe down from the top of the screen using two fingers or you can simply activate Siri and give the command Speak Screen. It can also read out Emojis for you whenever they appear in the content. In the same way, you can select text in any app like Mail, Gmail, Safari, etc. Similarly, you can select the text on a web page by long pressing on it and sliding. On selecting the conversation, long press on the message you want Siri to read out for you. For instance, if you want Siri to read text messages then open Messages.Īfter that, open the conversation of the contact whose text messages you desire to read.
On activating the Speak Selection feature you will get the Speak option whenever you select text anywhere on your iPhone. Next, toggle Speak Selection and Speak Screen switch to ON.įrom the Speech screen, you can also control the speaking speed of the output. Now navigate to Accessibility and select it.ģ. In order to use Siri as a text to speech translator follow the steps given below.Ģ.