Start Speaking

Welcome to Start Speaking 1.1 iPhone Duo: Start Speaking now works on iPhone Duo. Your book stays open, exactly where you left it, when you open or close the phone. Open, your bookshelf sits beside your book; closed, the Library, Speak and Settings tabs stay with you inside a book. Highlights and notes: highlight a paragraph in one of five named colors, add a note by typing or dictating, and hear your notes read aloud in their own voice. Bookmarks, notes and highlights all live together in Saved Places, which you can search, filter and export. On-Device AI voices: 21 natural English voices that run on your iPhone or iPad, with no account and no cost per book. Books you've heard play straight away next time. Add web pages from Safari: a new Safari extension adds the page you're reading, or just the text you select, keeping its headings, lists and tables and leaving out menus and adverts. Sleep Timer: stop reading after 5 minutes to two hours, with a bookmark saved where you really stopped. More of your files: Markdown, rich text folders and text bundles can now be added, and EPUB, DAISY, PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel books read more accurately, including scanned PDFs and printed page numbers. Listening: keep music playing under your book, control it with headphones and the Lock Screen, and pick up where you left off after a call. The Speak tab now has one large Play and Pause button. Also new: a cleaner reader with a one-line progress bar, easier to see buttons in every theme, better support for the largest text sizes, more dependable iCloud sync, and an expanded Start Speaking Guide. Open What's New in your library for the full list.