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

Phil Gons (Logos)
Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799
edited November 21 in English Feedback
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
    Andrew Biddinger Member Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    Yes, ANDROID NEEDS THIS DESPERATELY!
  • Hagiophilos
    Hagiophilos Member Posts: 154 ✭✭
    Logos Mobile App is really needing add this option
  • Unknown
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    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
    Bryan Garlock Member Posts: 9
    edited November 21
    Please add this feature to the iPhone/iPad!
  • David Sileven
    David Sileven Member Posts: 14
    edited November 21
    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
    David Sileven Member Posts: 14
    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
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    This is a must.
  • Mitchell Holley
    Mitchell Holley Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    I agree the you version Bible app updated to have this capability. I have learning disabilities this would help with
  • Unknown
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    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
    Shane Ball Member Posts: 6
    I would like to suggest the same thing, i drive a lot and having it read things would be great.
  • Swapna Ken
    Swapna Ken Member Posts: 1
    edited November 21
    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
    Phil A Member Posts: 2
    edited November 21
    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
    Josh Watford Member Posts: 6 ✭✭✭
    Came here to post this. I need this for my doctoral studies and the amount of reading I have to do.
  • Hagiophilos
    Hagiophilos Member Posts: 154 ✭✭
    edited November 21
    It would be very useful to have this option on android devices.
  • Unknown
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    Excelente!!!!!
  • Unknown
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    Excelente idea, muy util para cuando uno está manejando, escuchar los libros
  • bradley.grainger
    bradley.grainger Member Posts: 226 ✭✭✭
    See also https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/read-aloud-on-iphone-ipad
  • bradley.grainger
    bradley.grainger Member Posts: 226 ✭✭✭
    See also https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/tts-for-android-mobile-app
  • Arnold Perez
    Arnold Perez Member Posts: 2
    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
    Ray Timmermans Member Posts: 90 ✭✭
    Great idea.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    This would be helpful
  • Jonathan Bovee
    Jonathan Bovee Member Posts: 2
    edited November 21
    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
    Peter Li Member Posts: 24
    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
    Mark Gosnell Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    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
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    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
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    Yes, please! This auditory learner and seminarian would benefit greatly from it!
  • Noy Jan
    Noy Jan Member Posts: 4
    Yes! Read aloud must be added to the mobile app with play controls (speed, voice, etc.)
  • Unknown
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    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
    Unknown
    Yes, I would love to have this on android
  • Mark Gosnell
    Mark Gosnell Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    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;-)

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