IPhone – voice reading web pages (news articles) on the iPhone and Mac

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I am looking for an app or a method to easily read aloud web pages (especially news articles) that I find on the web.

I read possible 20-50 news articles a day and most of them I would just like to listen to being read by an electronic voice.

I have actually had some success using the built in accessibility features of the mac – however I find them clumsy and difficult to use.

Notes how I used to use the accessibility features:

  1. I would make the set the text to voice short cut to #s
  2. I would highlight the text by selecting it in the browser
  3. I would then #s to start reading the text

Problems with this approach:

  1. There is no easy way to pause the reading of the text
  2. The the select + read is rather cumbersome
  3. There is no way to batch the reads
  4. There is no queue of reads … like you can't throw stuff conveniently in the the read queue

Actually what I am looking for is a getpocket.com equivalent of text-to-speech.

Best Answer

Have you tried the service "Add to iTunes as a spoken track"? You can easily assign a keyboard shortcut to it an then manage the tracks with iTunes.

I found this tutorial on youtube.

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