Android text to speech

Can anyone tell me if it’s reliable and pleasant enough to listen to logos books via text to speech/ voice ov er or similar on android? I’m thinking of getting an android phone. My iphones battery just isn’t good enough so im thinking of a moto g7 power.

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George

Can anyone tell me if it’s reliable and pleasant enough to listen to logos books via text to speech/ voice ov er or similar on android? I’m thinking of getting an android phone. My iphones battery just isn’t good enough so im thinking of a moto g7 power.

If there is a way in the Android app to do that, I haven't found it yet. I've read about something like that being available on Amazon Fire and IOS devices but even that is not from within the Logos app but rather from the operating system.

I hope I'm wrong.

Andrew Biddinger

Can anyone tell me if it’s reliable and pleasant enough to listen to logos books via text to speech/ voice ov er or similar on android? I’m thinking of getting an android phone. My iphones battery just isn’t good enough so im thinking of a moto g7 power.

So, the answer is that it is not yet completed on Andriod devices: https://logosmobile.uservoice.com/forums/190765-logos-mobile-apps/suggestions/3671914-enable-read-aloud-or-text-to-speech-like-in-the-de But, I WOULD LOOOOVE LOVE LOVE to see this happen. Definitely on my top 5 request list.

However, I need to test some more. But, was getting it to somewhat work on my andriod phone in the web app. https://app.logos.com/ So, we can hope that that might work......

Sakarias Ingolfsson

The UserVoice petition was last updated back in 2014, which is half a decade ago at the time of writing this reply. Concluding from this silence, I think it is safe to assume that nothing more is going to happen anytime soon.

So a more relevant question is whether there are any workarounds.

I have been unsuccessful in getting the system TTS to work with Logos. It reads GUI elements and the page number, but that is all. I have not tried any third party screen readers, but I suspect they will fail as well.

A different approach might be to export book sections from the desktop app, and make the screen reader use the resulting document. I have not tried this yet, but I might. I do not know what the export limit is, but I have sometimes printed out entire chapters in order to read them from paper. It might be worth the attempt. Also, perhaps one can find a screen reader that can bee tweaked to read bible references correctly.

JT (alabama24)

My iphones battery just isn’t good enough

Which specific iPhone? Did you get a new one already?

John Goodman

I've gone for a moto one vision... coping without read aloud on my phone for now. But I miss it. Reading other posts, I think faithlife kind of regrets the existence of the feature and feel it prevents sales of audiobooks. Personally I don't understand this, I spend a lot on audiobooks but they don't have much of a selection so I go elsewhere. For me this is an accessibility feature and it is a huge disappointment that faithlife are not willing to make it happen. Particularly given the number of niche texts that would become available to people who struggle with vision, dyslexia and other problems. None of which will ever be recorded as audiobooks.

Gordon Jones

...this is an accessibility feature and it is a huge disappointment that faithlife are not willing to make it happen. Particularly given the number of niche texts that would become available to people who struggle with vision, dyslexia and other problems. None of which will ever be recorded as audiobooks.

I don't know FaithLife's reasons for not yet having implemented Android text to speech (technical challenges? cost? legal issues?) but I agree that it would be great to have it. It would be wonderful to listen to my Logos books while out driving or walking or weeding the garden.

Your points, John, about accessibility for the visually impaired and making available texts not rendered as audio books are compelling.

I've added my 3 votes and hopefully other forum users who see this thread will consider adding theirs.

https://logosmobile.uservoice.com/forums/190765-logos-mobile-apps/suggestions/3671914-enable-read-aloud-or-text-to-speech-like-in-the-de

T-Bone

Reading other posts, I think faithlife kind of regrets the existence of the feature and feel it prevents sales of audiobooks.

Please share the "other posts" you've read and explain your reasoning. I've never read any posts that imply what you've said.

For me this is an accessibility feature and it is a huge disappointment that faithlife are not willing to make it happen.

How do you know that "faithlife are not willing to make it happen"

Faithlife responded to you regarding this issue many years ago: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/41565/528418.aspx#528418 . Nothing has changed since then.

John Goodman

Please share the "other posts" you've read and explain your reasoning. I've never read any posts that imply what you've said.

I don't have time to search the forums for you - the summary of what faithlife has said as I understand it is:

Read aloud on ios was not intentional but a nice benefit of ios design. They actually removed it at one point and it was only through asking on this forum that it was reinstated.

It is seen as a competitor to being able to sell audio books.

They have not stated any intention to implement it on Android.

The explanation on the thread you mentioned is a bit daft. The android speech api is very simple... they could easily do this if they want to.

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Benjamin Clark

Hi, I have a work around.

You export your chapter, or whole book as a PDF.
Send it to your phone.
Install @Voice onto you Android Phone
Open PDF with @voice
Press the play button.

It's a bit of faff but does work really well.

Juraschek, Loyal C.

Thanks, Benjamin!

Are you referring to @Voice Aloud Reader by Hyperionics Technology? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar&hl=en&gl=US

Benjamin Clark

Yes that's the one. Not very intuitive but works great once you've played around with it for a bit. Such a time saver for me!