Read-Aloud for Hebrew/Greek

Jonathan Poland
Jonathan Poland Member Posts: 19
edited November 21 in English Feedback
I am so glad to see you are bringing the read-aloud feature to the mobile app. Thank you!

Is there any way you could get the system to actually pronounce Hebrew/Greek words when they appear? Any pronunciation at all would be better than what it currently does.

As a Seminary student, I have to read tons of scholarly resources that utilize the original languages. It is incredibly frustrating when read-aloud is constantly grinding to a halt to name every single character: "Hebrew letter aleph... Hebrew letter lamed... Hebrew letter vav... Hebrew letter hey..." etc.

Good grief, LOL!

I only ask this because I know from experience that the Google Books app, for example, can read Greek words out-loud from a grammar just fine. It's modern pronunciation, not academic, but I don't care. It's so much better, and it saves time.
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  • I would like to see the ability to pause R-A in Windows. It always jumps back to the start of a section rather than where I left off reading. And it would really be great if it would read Koine Greek and Hebrew.  Thank you.
  • Jacob Morton
    Jacob Morton Member Posts: 7
    This has been fixed on Mac with the 13.1 MacOS update. You can now use Siri voices to read, and they do not spell out Greek and Hebrew words. 
  • Aureliano Tan, Jr.
    Aureliano Tan, Jr. Member Posts: 4
    Only if the pronunciation is Classical Hebrew, please!
  • Anderson Abreu
    Anderson Abreu Member Posts: 550 ✭✭✭
    Yes! Please

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