Description
Speak News: The Ultimate News Companion for the 21st Century
Are you tired of reading news stories on your own? Want to listen to your favorite news stories hands-free? Then you need Speak News! This amazing app reads stories from RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, or Google News queries to you using text-to-speech. And the best part? You can use Siri to open Speak News and listen to news stories hands-free using the earphones remote control. Just say “Hey Siri, Open Speak News” and the app will start reading your current news stories.
Here are some of the amazing features you will get with Speak News:
1. Siri Integration: Use Siri to open the app and listen to stories. You can also use Siri Shortcuts to perform several common activities with voice commands.
2. Bookmarks: You can bookmark RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, Google News queries, or Speak News keyword queries. Speak News queries can be created and performed while offline, searching the stories cached on the device. You can also import bookmarks from a Feedly OPML feed library URL.
3. Multitasking: You can update news feeds in the background while reading or listening to news in the foreground.
4. International Speech Voices: Speak News automatically selects appropriate international speech voices based on story language.
5. Share News: You can share news headlines and links, or entire news feeds through the standard iOS Share social media activities view, including Message, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Twitter, Google+, Flipboard, Facebook, Evernote, etc.
6. Media Player Controls: Current story info and Play/Pause, Previous, Next functions are available in the media player controls in the device's lock screen and Control Center.
7. Variety of Voices: Speak News automatically rotates through available voices for the current language for each story. This gives more variety and distinction in the sequence of spoken news stories.
8. Offline Access: All stories are saved on your device for later reading and listening while offline.
9. Text-Only Story Display: Efficient text-only story display makes loading and reading faster, and saves money on your cell phone plan by downloading minimal data.
10. Customizable Display Styles: Display Styles include White, Light Gray, Sepia, Dark Gray, Dark Red, and Black. The "dark mode" Black and Dark Red styles are ideal for reading in dark environments.
11. Today Widget: The Today Widget displays scrolling list of stories from current feed.
12. Remote Control with Earphones: Use the remote control on earphones to speak and pause stories, move to next or previous stories, or select a new RSS feed from your bookmarks.
13. Customizable Settings: The Settings view includes many controls for news story display, auto-reload, speech and auto-scrolling behavior, and user-interface sounds.
With Speak News, you will never miss a beat in the news world. You can create your own bookmarks and bookmark sections, import bookmarks from Imaja’s Speak News RSS Feeds Library featuring a broad selection of essential and informative news feeds. And if you have any questions, you can check out our FAQs or read user reviews. Here are some of the amazing reviews from our satisfied users:
- Maria Rodriguez: "I absolutely love Speak News! It's so easy to use and it reads the news stories perfectly. I can even listen to the news hands-free with Siri. It's the perfect companion for anyone who loves to stay up-to-date with the latest news."
- William Johnson: "I'm blown away by Speak News. It's so intuitive and easy to use. I love that it automatically selects the appropriate international speech voices based on story language. It's the perfect app for anyone who wants to stay informed on the go."
- Sarah Thompson: "Speak News has changed the way I consume news. I love that I can save stories for later and listen to them while offline. And the customizable display styles are a nice touch. It's the perfect app for anyone who loves to stay informed."
Don't miss out on this amazing app. Download Speak News today and start listening to your favorite news stories hands-free!
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