SPEAKS from Callionica app for iPhone and iPad

SPEAKS from Callionica lets you listen to the web. And you dont even need to be online. Read the web with your ears!

Using a high quality English-speaking voice, SPEAKS adds another dimension to the web as it reads web pages aloud to you.

(And SPEAKS can read German, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Danish content too!)

SPEAKS makes it easy for you to catch up on all the news and entertainment that you normally read. Even when youre exercising, commuting, doing chores, or just too tired to read. In any situation where you cant use your hands to control your device, cant use your eyes to read, or just dont have the concentration, you can use SPEAKS to read the web to you.

*** Choose from 4 speech styles: High Energy, Newsreader, Standard, and Storyteller.

SPEAKS stores all the pages youre interested in right on your device, so that theyre ready for you at a moments notice. Even if you dont have a network connection, SPEAKS is able to read to you and show you all your content.

*** Choose from 5 accents: English, American, Australian, Irish, and South African.

SPEAKS uses an advanced analytical process to recognize the main content of each web page, so that the audio contains just the stuff youre interested in. And we use that same analytical engine to show you only the important text on screen in a clean, minimalist layout thats pleasing to the eye.

SPEAKS has been designed for the best speech quality that we enhance and customize in thousands of ways. SPEAKS analyzes the text and adjusts the prosody and pronunciation so that the reading sounds as natural and fluent as possible.

SPEAKS can pronounce names and concepts from the worlds of science, art, literature, politics, and sport. And you can customize the reading by choosing one of four speech styles: Standard, High Energy, Newsreader, and Storyteller. Each style gives a different flavor to the reading.

SPEAKS is incredibly easy to use. Tap the SPEAKS extension in Safari to save an article in SPEAKS, and tap in the SPEAKS app to hear it. Youll soon build up a list of great content to listen to and SPEAKS will keep reading to you until you tell it to stop.

The app supports background audio and the system media controls, so you can control SPEAKS without switching to the app. You can even send the audio to AirPlay speakers or your AppleTV.

*** Hear and see the text with or without a speech highlight showing the words currently being spoken.

SPEAKS is very respectful of your data allowance and your storage space. If you load pages from Safari, SPEAKS does not download any additional data - it will simply store the page already on your device. If you load pages from other apps, SPEAKS will download only the data needed to read the page to you (just the page itself, no images or scripts). It even has an Article Update Policy setting that allows you to prevent SPEAKS from downloading pages that you have downloaded in the past. And Speaks can store around 200 articles in the same space as a single episode of a podcast. Very useful if your device doesnt have much storage, youve hit a bandwidth cap, or youre going on a trip where you might not have network access for a while.

SPEAKS can help you learn English. By taking any English-language text that you can find on the web and speaking it aloud to you, you can find just the right material to keep you motivated. And with the highlight showing exactly which text is currently being spoken, you can experience English in two ways at once without getting lost. Use the speech styles to pick the speed to match your level.