Speak News - RSS news reader
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Speak News reads stories from RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, or Google News queries to you using text-to-speech. Speak News app is built for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Use Siri to open Speak News and listen to news stories hands-free using the earphones remote control. Just say “Hey Siri, Open Speak News” and the app will start reading your current news stories.
Complete Features
• Use Siri to open the app and listen to stories.
• Use Siri Shortcuts to perform several common activities with voice commands.
• Bookmarks can be RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, Google News queries, or Speak News keyword queries. Speak News queries can be created and performed while offline, searching the stories cached on the device.
• iCloud bookmark syncing
• Import bookmarks from a Feedly OPML feed library URL.
• Multitasking allows updating news feeds in the background while reading or listening to news in the foreground.
• Automatically selects appropriate international speech voices based on story language.
• Toolbar functions in a feed view include Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next, Update All Feeds, View Mode, Share, Settings.
• Share news headlines and links, or entire news feeds through the standard iOS Share social media activities view, including Message, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Twitter, Google+, Flipboard, Facebook, Evernote, etc.
• Current story info and Play/Pause, Previous, Next functions are available in the media player controls in the device's lock screen and Control Center.
• Speak News automatically rotates through available voices for the current language for each story. This gives more variety and distinction in the sequence of spoken news stories. For instance, in English, this gives U.S. , U.K. Ireland, New Zealand, and Australian voices.
• All stories are saved on your device for later reading and listening while offline.
• Efficient text-only story display makes loading and reading faster, and saves money on your cell phone plan by downloading minimal data.
• Display Styles include White, Light Gray, Sepia, Dark Gray, Dark Red, and Black. The "dark mode" Black and Dark Red styles are ideal for reading in dark environments.
• All text is responsive to the user's preferred text size as set in Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size, and Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text.
• Toolbar functions in the Bookmarks view include New Bookmark, Go To Section, Find, Settings, Library, and Edit.
• Today Widget displays scrolling list of stories from current feed.
• Use the remote control on earphones to speak and pause stories, move to next or previous stories, or select a new RSS feed from your bookmarks.
• Create your own bookmarks and bookmark sections.
• Import bookmarks from Imaja’s Speak News RSS Feeds Library featuring a broad selection of essential and informative news feeds.
• Settings includes many controls for news story display, auto-reload, speech and auto-scrolling behavior, and user-interface sounds.
• Keyboard shortcuts are supported for Speak News functions for use with external Bluetooth keyboards.
• RSS feed details are viewable in the Edit Bookmark view.
• Word Usage action displays statistics on word frequencies in a story or a complete feed.
• Speak News supports a custom URL scheme for adding bookmarks.
Remote Control with Earphones
Tap the center button:
• One time to play or pause the speech.
• Two times to skip to the next story.
• Three times to skip to the previous story.
• Five times to enter Bookmark Selection Mode. In Bookmark Selection Mode, listen for the desired bookmark name and tap one time to open and start speaking the feed.
Settings
Use the Settings view to configure the text display, graphic style and behavior of Speak News.
Visit imaja.com/speaknews for more details and screenshots.
Follow @SpeakNewsApp on Twitter.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Speak News is now updated for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 and includes other improvements:
* Speak News adds support for the beautiful new Liquid Glass interface and iOS 26.
* Toolbar layout has been improved for iPhone and iPad.
* Improvements to popover views for Settings, App Info, Voice Library, Edit Bookmark.
* Improvements to default settings for text-to-speech behavior.
* Restoration of the current bookmark upon relaunching app is improved.
* Improved keyboard shortcuts for use with an external keyboard.
* Updated the spoken word Introduction to Speak News for the new toolbar layout. To listen, tap the ? button in the Bookmarks view toolbar, then choose Introduction to Speak News in the App Info view.
* Updated all screenshots on the App Store.
