Now you have to reselect again to keep going. The way I've been able to do it is just select another piece of text, any piece of text, and you've got pause. If you want to get it to stop it's a little tricky. You can even look and see, you can follow along if you want which is another reason this may be useful. So I find it useful to, if you want to get that menu back where it says speak there, to actually select the last dot and just move it a little bit and it comes back. Because this will work just fine through headphones and everything.Then with that text selected you can have the text spoken to you. Say at the end of an evening I want to rest my eyes while I want to finish a chapter or I'm in a situation where I want to listen to something but maybe I'm doing something where I can't actually read a book like for instance maybe I'm going for a walk somewhere. It's still not that much but it's enough to make it worthwhile. You can see I can grab that entire chapter. You'll get the hang of it after a little while. It's a little tricky because you've got to grab that small blue dot but it can be done.
I'm going to then scroll up and keep selecting. So I'm going to select that first word just as before and I'm going to drag the cursor down there so it selects more text. Scrolling view now allows you to easily select large chunks of text. If you go to adjust the fonts and such in iBooks you can make the text very tiny so you can select more text very easily on the screen. So this can make this a little difficult but not impossible. No doubt it's made kind of difficult as there is no special feature to just say speak this chapter to me or speak the book from this point on because there's probably rights concerns and publishers probably don't like it. You're going to have to keep selecting bits of text. So the problem is, it's too small a piece of text to make it worthwhile doing. Down the rabbit hole Alice was beginning to get very tired. I can drag the blue dot to select more text and then I can ask Siri to speak that text to me. Just tap and hold on the first word and you can see I've got the little blue dots there. So let's go into iBooks and you can see here I'm at the beginning of a book and I can select text. However there is a way to get iBooks to actually retext to you using Siri's voice. You have to buy one or the other and then commit yourself to reading the book that way. But there is very little crossover between them.
You can also use an app called Audible for audiobooks too. One is an E book and you can read them in the iBooks app or you can use iBooks also for audiobooks. Video Transcript: There are basically two ways that you can buy books or otherwise put them on your iPad or iPhone. You now can turn any ebook into an audiobook using the Speak Selection feature on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch.Check out Make iOS iBooks to Read To You at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. Tap on the Speak button and your device will begin to read the highlighted text, scrolling from page to page, as the entire selection is read aloud. Once you have selected the text, simply tap on the little right facing arrow next to the words Copy | Define | Highlight. Continue doing this until you have selected the whole chapter or whatever portion of the book you want read to you.Ĥ. Then, tap on the bottom blue dot again and continue to select the text you want read aloud to you. Then, let go and scroll down to reveal unselected text. Based on what I have seen, and on similar reports over at MobileRead, iCloud for iBooks is.
Let go and then tap on the bottom blue dot and drag down to select the entire screen full of text. That first step is a killer, especially if your older iDevice can’t run iOS 9 (luckily you do have other options), but once you are past that point you should have no trouble at all. This will activate the two blue selector dots or handles. Now navigate to the chapter you want read aloud to you and select the text by tapping and holding on the first word. Then tap on Themes and select “Scroll.” This will allow the book to scroll instead of needing to turn each page.ģ. Once the book is open, tap on the font sizer (the little A and the big A button) at the top right of your device. Open up iBooks and open the book you want to have read as an audiobook. Turn on Speak Selection and adjust the speaking rate to your preference and turn on Highlight Words if you want to have the words highlighted as they are read aloud to you.Ģ.
Activate “Speak Selection” feature by going to Settings –> General –> Accessibility –> Speak Selection.
So, here is how to have your device read ebooks to you, turning your iBooks into audiobooks:ġ.