What's New

● Optimized speak functions
- Keep reading aloud document in the background while using another app
- Lock screen support (play, pause, skip a sentence, adjust playback volume, display sentences list on the lock screen)
- Headphone support (play, pause, adjust playback volume, detect plugged and unplugged)
● Optimized tree file explorer functions (folder icons)
● Bug fixes

App Description

SpeakEnglishDoc - English Documents to Speech Offline
Speak aloud English US voices offline (including one female voice).

Useful Features
1. Speak aloud offline without internet connecting.
2. Speak aloud word by word, sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.
3. Exercising and improving your language skills during a bike riding, jogging or walking.
4. Exercising (Reading then Recording) one sentence.
5. Funny bear and human face animations while speaking.
6. Female and male voices could take turns sentence by sentence.
7. Speaking repeat, pause, rate and pitch options.

●●●●● Watch Video Demo ●●●●●
http://www.SpeakTextForMe.com

Note:
SpeakEnglish + integrates SpeakEnglishText, SpeakEnglishWeb and SpeakEnglishDoc features into one app.

Features
● Speak aloud offline
The app integrates a built-in text-to-speech engine, speaks aloud offline without internet connecting‭.‬

● Speak aloud sentence by sentence, word by word or paragraph by paragraph
You can choose sentence by sentence‭,‬ paragraph by paragraph and word by word.
You can repeat one sentence (paragraph), and set speaking pause between sentences (paragraphs), speaking rate & pitch and voices‭.‬
You can repeat one word, and set speaking pause between words.
The app speaks from the last sentence (paragraph) automatically.

● Exercising and improving your language skills during a bike riding, jogging or walking
The app could read then record (and play the recorded voice) sentence by sentence.
It will amplify voice from microphone to earphone and record voice while recording.
You can set the recording period to the times of reading period for each sentence or fixed period.

● Exercising one sentence
Reading then recording one sentence.

● Female and male voices take turns (Extra English Voices In-App Purchase)
The Female-Male voice feature speaks one female voice and one male voice sentence by sentence.

● Speaking face animation
The app provides funny face animations while speaking‭.‬
you can choose bears and humans face animation with two types of mouth each‭.‬
You could drag and drop to move to other position and turn on or off the face animations feature.

● Speak aloud documents
Speak aloud the whole document page from the beginning to the end sentence by sentence.
Speak aloud the touched selected words on documents.
Formats supported:
- Text (text, txt), RTF document (rtf)
- Microsoft Office: Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx), PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pps)
- Apple iWork: Pages (pages), Numbers (numbers), Keynote (key)
- eBook (unencrypted epub)
Please note that some licensed epub files are protected with encrypted data and are limited to use inside Apple iBook only.
PDF file format is not supported.

● Tree document file explorer
Expanding and showing sub folders and document files in the same view.
Search for files and folders.
Add, Delete, and Rename files and folders.
Drag & Drop to move files and folders.
Select multiple files and folders to Zip, Zip & Email, Email or Delete.
Scrollable menu.
Pull down to refresh the tree list.
Zip, Zip & Email multiple files and folders with a password.
Unzip a password-protected zip file.

● Support three ways to open documents
1. WiFi file transfer
2. Open In...
3. Apple iTunes

● Sentence by sentence window
You can change the sentence by sentence window size, repeat one sentence, word by word, speaking rate & pitch and voices while speaking‭.‬

● Support useful speaking options
The app provides some useful options, such as speaking repeat times of each sentence, speaking pause seconds between sentences, speaking pause seconds between words, speaking rate & pitch, speak English punctuation and display font size options.

● Email voice (wav) and text (pdf).

● Mark "Starred" to record favorite words

● Highlight words while speaking

● This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 09, 2014 Initial release
  • August 30, 2014 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
  • September 13, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
  • November 03, 2014 New version 9.0
  • November 25, 2014 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
  • December 01, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
  • July 05, 2016 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
  • July 07, 2016 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99