Add read aloud / text-to-speech to the mobile app

Phil Gons (Logos) · 2020-01-10T07:12:24+00:00

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Please add read aloud / text-to-speech support so we can listen to our resources and have them read to us on the mobile app like we can on the desktop app.

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Andrew Biddinger

Yes, ANDROID NEEDS THIS DESPERATELY!

Hagiophilos

Logos Mobile App is really needing add this option

unknown

Please do. I struggle with Dyslexia and this would open up a world of opportunity for people like myself and with other types of challenges.

Bryan Garlock

Please add this feature to the iPhone/iPad!

David Sileven

I would like the functionality of the Logos Mobile App having the ability to read any of your books in your Logos library audibly. This would include any version scripture or other books in my Logos Library. I want to be able to listen to my books via the Logos app as I am driving or sitting in my office.

David Sileven

YES!!! I want the Logos Mobile app to be able to read any scripture or book in the Logos Library so I can listen to it while I am driving, sitting in my office or relaxing on the back porch. The mobile app REALLY needs this ability. This provides access to books for the blind, those with other sight disabilities as well as those who may simply want to relax and listen to Christian literature.

unknown

This is a must.

Mitchell Holley

I agree the you version Bible app updated to have this capability. I have learning disabilities this would help with

unknown

I too miss this. My workaround has been exporting as much as I can as a web page, then importing said webpage into a program that features tts. Currently using eReader Prestigo.

Shane Ball

I would like to suggest the same thing, i drive a lot and having it read things would be great.

Swapna Ken

Thank you for the Christian resources that are available on Logos. I was wondering if it would be possible to enable voice to text capability for all books made avaiable on the app so one could listen to them while doing other chores, running errands, etc.

Phil A

Literally, the only reason I choose Kindle over Faithlife is that it reads to me (on the Kindle Fire.)
If you could get a "read to me" feature on the mobile app (like you do on the Logos desktop,) it would be a game changer.

Josh Watford

Came here to post this. I need this for my doctoral studies and the amount of reading I have to do.

Hagiophilos

It would be very useful to have this option on android devices.

unknown

Excelente!!!!!

unknown

Excelente idea, muy util para cuando uno está manejando, escuchar los libros

bradley.grainger

See also https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/read-aloud-on-iphone-ipad

bradley.grainger

See also https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/tts-for-android-mobile-app

Arnold Perez

Excelente, o por lo menos poner una opción de audiolibro como en el de logos pc, de ahi nosotros utilizar nuestras voces premium en android

Ray Timmermans

Great idea.

unknown

This would be helpful

Jonathan Bovee

The "Talk back" feature on Android phones is not able to recognize the Logos app content. If Logos either made the mobile app to be recognizable by Talk back or added a text reader it would mean I could use my Logos content throughout my day while I drive at work

Peter Li

Yes, yes, please PLEASE improve the Read Aloud feature!! In addition to the above, please:
4. Allow more speed options (e.g. speed slider)
5. Make it more reliable, better tested (e.g. don't pause at awkward places, don't stop suddenly)
6. Make "Show word by word indicator" (aka "Karaoke dancing dot") work for human narrator as well as system narrator, PLEASE!!

Mark Gosnell

This would be a fantastic update and would be a significant step-up for the mobile app. I realize there are additional complexities given that so many of the logos resources are multilingual. None of the available built-in text to speech options on mobile apps really know what to do with accents in ancient Greek (they mostly just skip or mispronounce, making the TTS essentially unusable for many of the resources) and I'm hoping that this would end up finally being the one TTS that overcomes this issue.

unknown

Yes. Please. I would use the app so much more if it had an option to read books aloud to you. This would be great

unknown

Yes, please! This auditory learner and seminarian would benefit greatly from it!

Noy Jan

Yes! Read aloud must be added to the mobile app with play controls (speed, voice, etc.)

unknown

Please do this it would be transformative for how I use my logos library! And a really useful aid for ministry. I use Android.

unknown

Yes, I would love to have this on android

Mark Gosnell

Not sure how much this is being monitored, but since this project appears to be moving forward (though I wish we had a rough timeline on it), I should probably add to my above comment for anyone who is involved in designing the TTS updates on mobile, especially if they plan on taking into account the multilingual resources offered through Logos. As mentioned, there is no text to speech, on any platform, that seems to know what to do with accents in ancient Greek, leading to garbled and spotty pronunciation (though Hebrew tends to be handled well), and most language detection is extremely glitchy. Speak screen on IOS, for example, tends to switch to a Greek voice as soon as it detects Greek letters, and then not only ignores or mispronounces most of the letters that have accents on them (would be far better if they just ignored all accents), but also often fails to switch back to an English voice once the English lettering starts again, particularly if there are numbers after the Greek letters. It's clear that the kind of resource offered by Logos is simply not envisioned by IOS designers. If Logos takes such details into account in their design, it will be completely sui generis, offering scholars something that is unmatched anywhere; the ability to study and research in depth in a whole new and much more efficient way. Hope that's helpful;-)

unknown

Yes please - been hoping for this for a long time

The Rev. Dr. Larry D Ellis

This would be a tremendous help to me. I use it on the desktop all the time.

MJF

I know that in the desktop version of logos you can have your books be read out loud. It would be wonderful to have this feature on the mobile apps. Is that something that Logos is working on?

MJF

Yes! Please do this ASAP for iOS apps. It would be so helpful!

david.w.mason

Just as the desktop version has the opportunity to read aloud, it would be wonderful for the mobile version to be able to do the same without needing to keep the screen unlocked.

An example would be YouTube, where the video/file will play but it will shut off once the screen display goes off. I’d like an option for read-aloud on the mobile that plays while it’s in my pocket.

Antonio Thomas

There are many books that I have to purchase for school. For example:Introducing Christian doctrine 3rd Edition by Millard J Erickson. I spend a lot of time in the car which is the reason why an audio version of textbooks is very important to me. I decided I had to purchase this book through a different app which is call vitalsource. This app allows the text-to-speech function of my device to function within the app making an ebook an audiobook. Logos needs to do this. I would much rather have all of my material within logo system. But unless I can actually use the read aloud on my mobile device I will not be able to make all of my purchases through logos. Please fix this

Roël G. Blackman

Can you like in windows add Tekt to speech to this app? So we listen to our books while on the go.

kclnicolaides

make audio available on all library resources for androids just as it is now on laptops

Andrew

I am a student, and it would help immensely for there to be an automated read out loud feature added to the app. Especially if it included variable read speed. Just to be clear, I'm not talking of an audio book, just a read aloud feature as for accessibility.
You would be doing us all a great service if you included this feature into the app. Thanks

unknown

Please add this to mobile version of Logos

unknown

Would love for this feature to be added so I don’t have to copy and paste my textbooks for college to a program to have it read out loud. I cannot even use speak aloud on iPhone for it to work at how it’s currently set up.

unknown

this would really be a game-changer for those in ministry, school, exercise, travel, and many other things who read, study prepare lessons, and sermons on the go! this would definitely me to use the mobile app more and be more productive. even if it's available on the web app with immersive readers

unknown

Please prioritize adding read aloud for resources to the mobile app. I'm in seminary and, being an aural learner, it would massively aid my studies if I was able to listen to my resources on iPhone/iPad when I am out and about, sparing precious extra time for family and other responsibilities. This will carry over directly into ministry as well and would be so helpful for busy pastors in staying well read.

Mark T Watson

It would really be nice to hear the word of God as I'm driving down the road through my app.

Arnold Perez

have a button to activate the voice reading

unknown

Yes please! As a student of the word I need this! I have more than a thousand books in logos and it would greatly improve and help with my studies. It would be impossible for me to read through everything in it. Plus it would add more perks on buying the logos’ ebook version rather than Amazon or other ebook websites. Please do this.

Levi Mayo

I like the read aloud feature on the desktop version of Logos, but I am always on the go all the time I want to have the read aloud on the mobile app.

Ray Timmermans

"Faith comes through hearing..." Just a reminder.

unknown

Yes please add the read aloud feature to the mobile app. Eyesight is failing. This would be true blessing

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