Is there no Text-to-Speech on the moble app?

I have an Amazon Fire tablet and it has pretty good text-to-speech functionality. It reads my Kindle books out loud wonderfully, as well as Washington Post articles. However, I don't see a way to get the Logos app to read books out loud on the tablet. If this function is available on the laptop/desktop Logos app, and if my tablet has good text-to-speech functionality, what's stopping the mobile app from being enabled to read the books out loud?

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Simon’s Brother

There is no text to speech functionality built into the app at this point in time. On iOS devices I am able to use the OS text to speech functionality to with the app - this is invoked via the OS, not the app, by using tbe appropriate fi get swipe.

I am not familiar with your device but take a look and see if the OS has any text to speech or screen reader fnctionity that you can use as a workaround.

Brandyn Whittington

I have an Amazon Fire tablet and it has pretty good text-to-speech functionality. It reads my Kindle books out loud wonderfully, as well as Washington Post articles. However, I don't see a way to get the Logos app to read books out loud on the tablet. If this function is available on the laptop/desktop Logos app, and if my tablet has good text-to-speech functionality, what's stopping the mobile app from being enabled to read the books out loud?

Hey Kiyah! As DOC said, it is at this time not available universally, however we do have a number of audio bibles in our store that do allow you to have a similar function with their specific books/translations. These are always a great option in the mean time.

Jan Krohn

On Amazon Fire tablets it's actually dead easy to use text to speech. Enable the Faithlife Alexa skill, and create a reading plan of the resource you want to have read to you.

Then talk to your device: "Open Faithlife".

Device: "What do you wish, my master" (actually it's something different, but I can't remember the exact wording now.)

You: "What are my readings for today?"

Device: reads the resource to you...

Kiyah

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/908714#Comment_908714

Cool. Thanks.

David A Egolf

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/908714#Comment_908714

On Amazon Fire tablets it's actually dead easy to use text to speech. Enable the Faithlife Alexa skill, and create a reading plan of the resource you want to have read to you.

Then talk to your device: "Open Faithlife".

Device: "What do you wish, my master" (actually it's something different, but I can't remember the exact wording now.)

You: "What are my readings for today?"

Device: reads the resource to you...

On my Amazon Echo, each reading is limited to a few thousand characters. It will silently truncate the reading if it is too large. To read through the Bible, I had to set up a three year plan so that each reading was short enough to not be subject to the character limit.

Does the Faithlife Alexa skill on the Amazon Fire have this limitation?

Kiyah

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/909167#Comment_909167

On my Amazon Echo, each reading is limited to a few thousand characters. It will silently truncate the reading if it is too large. To read through the Bible, I had to set up a three year plan so that each reading was short enough to not be subject to the character limit.

Does the Faithlife Alexa skill on the Amazon Fire have this limitation?

I've been able to get it to read whole chapters at a time. I haven't really tried much else so I'm no sure. It read all of Romans 5, Romans 8, and 2 Peter 2 for me (on demand) without truncating anything. I haven't been able to get it to read my reading for the NT Wright book that I'm reading. It keeps telling me that "something has gone wrong." Not sure what the problem is there. So the reading plan function and having it read the latest reading from a reading plan has not worked for me.