Monergism’s 125+ Free eBooks Listed by Author.If you find a tutorial on how to have your Android phone read to you, please share it in the comments and I’ll add it to this post.) A few links to help you load up your Kindle: If you’re more of a video person, here’s a how-to video: Then, to begin reading, select a portion of text or swipe three fingers down the screen to have it begin reading. Step Four: Open a book in the Kindle App, triple click the round button to hear “VoiceOver On”. I was tricked at first, wanting to turn VoiceOver “On” at the top of the Accessibility menu just to realize it didn’t work well turning it on earlier than needed. The Accessibility Shortcut is what happens when you triple-click the round main button on the iPhone just below the screen. Step Three: Under Accessibility, go all the way down to Accessibility Shortcut, and set it to VoiceOver. Step Two: Under General Settings, Click on Accessibility. Step One: Go to your iPhone Settings and Click on General. How to Get the Kindle App to Read to You with iPhone VoiceOver (I’m using an iPhone 5, but I assume this works with the iPhone 6 and any other model. I had my iPhone for close to nine months before I discovered this hidden jewel that has made my reading much more efficient and enjoyable.īelow are instructions on how to access the VoiceOver feature on the iPhone and read books from the Kindle app. The only problem is that using this feature the way I do isn’t the most intuitive thing. The more I used Kindle with VoiceOver on my iPhone, the more I like it. I was surprised at how the computer’s voice didn’t sound too-computery, and quickly grew accustomed to Siri’s sound-a-like cousin reading to me as I exercised, drove, or read along. I love having dozens of books always with me in my pocket and I love the convenient way the iPhone’s VoiceOver feature allows me to have the phone read my books to me audibly. Technology has changed the way I read, first a few years ago with the Kindle Touch’s Text-to-Speech function, and now with The Kindle App for the iPhone, that I do much of my reading on.

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