Please note that before doing anything, check for iOS and iPadOS updates. Try them until you have fixed your problem. This article will provide some basic troubleshooting steps that you may try to fix your Speak Screen problem. Speak Screen is primarily used by people with vision impairments. What this does is to render the text and image content of your screen (emails, documents, webpages, app contents, digital books, Kindle, etc) as speech output.

Speak Screen is an accessibility feature of iOS and iPadOS. Users have further reported that they get an error message saying “no speakable content could be found on the screen” even though there are readable items on the screen. Sometimes, it has been reported that the feature does not work at all, and sometimes it randomly stops working after speaking a few paragraphs and sometimes it skips whole sections of the page. Some users have said that the feature stopped working after updating their devices to the newest version of iOS or iPadOS. You’ll need to agree to it to proceed.Several iPhone and iPad users have said that the Speak Screen feature is not working as expected. If you click Install in the confirmation window, the Apple Licensing Agreement will appear. The OS will need to download the voice, so you’ll be asked to confirm that you want to install it.

Check the boxes of the voices you want, and then click OK. To sample a voice, check its box and click on the Play button. Many are designed for use with a particular language, such as German, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, or even South African English, and those voices will read American English with the inflections of the language it is designed for. In Lion, a new window will appear, with a list of different voices. In the System Voice pop-up menu used in step 2, select Customize (or Show More Voices if you’re using Snow Leopard) at the bottom of the menu. Step 3: Add new voices Additional voices in Lion. If you aren’t satisfied with one of the six, you can add more voices. If you like one of the six voices, select it, adjust the Speaking Rate (if you want), close the window, and you’re done. You can use the slider bar to adjust the Speaking Rate. In Snow Leopard, the male voices are first.) To see what each one sounds like, select it, and then click the Play button. (In Lion, the female voices are listed first. You’ll see the voices, divided by gender. Still in the Text to Speech tab of the Speech system preference, click on the System Voice pop-up menu. Sure, Alex sounds like a nice guy, but he won’t be offended if you want a change. Step 2: Change the voice The six default voices as they appear in Lion. You can, for example, have your Mac read an email as you settle in after arriving to work. Now whenever you want the Mac to read something out loud, you just select the text and press the key combo.

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