Activate Speech synthesis in iOS

Prenly supports speech synthesis of articles in the simplified article reading mode. This can be used to have the iOS app read the article content out loud.

You can at any time in the article reading mode choose to activate or deactivate the speech synthesis functionality.

1. Select an article in the article reading mode. If your publication opens to a replica, select an article from the replica to open in the simplified article reading mode.

Open the article mode.

2. Activate the speech synthesis functionality by selecting "Aa" in the top-right corner. The article reading mode's settings will appear. Select the panel "Theme & Speech" and then toggle the switch for Speech synthesis. The toggle will change to colour to indicate that the speech synthesis function shall activate.

Activate the speech synthesis functionality within the Aa-menu and the panel "Theme & Speech".

Article reading mode with deactivated speech synthesis functionality.

3. Deactivate the speech synthesis functionality by selecting "Aa" in the top-right corner. Select the panel "Theme & Speech" and then toggle the switch for Speech synthesis. The toggle will become colourless to indicate that the speech synthesis functionality shall deactivate.

Deactivate the speech synthesis functionality within the Aa-menu and the panel "Theme & Speech".

You will find three icons at the bottom of the article when the speech synthesis functionality is activated.

Select the play icon, located in the middle of the three, to have the article read out loud via the speech synthesis. While the reading is active the same icon will transform into a pause icon, enabling you to pause the reading.

Switch article by either swiping or selecting the previous- and next icons. If the speech synthesis is currently reading it will instead read the new selected article.

Article reading mode with activated speech synthesis functionality.

Select the video below to see how to activate or deactivate the speech synthesis functionality.

Activate or deactivate speech synthesis functionality.