In this voice reader app, users can listen to their emails aloud and manage messages through voice commands or gestures. Includes features like email playback, flagging, and language detection.
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About Speaking Email - voice reader
Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free.
Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition.
(Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP')
— WHY DO I WANT IT? —
FOR DRIVERS
Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move.
Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox.
Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move.
(Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP")
FOR ACCESSIBILITY
Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app.
Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled!
— HOW DOES IT WORK? —
Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox.
Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go.
You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands.
Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails.
— FEATURES —
- Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter
- Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices
- Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending
- Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future
- Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In)
- Voice commands and buttons include:
Next
Back
Archive/Done
Flag
Trash
Reply
Forward
Ignore (thumbs down)
Important (thumbs up)
Block Sender
Rewind
Fast Forward
Compose
Search
Voice
Slower
Faster
People
When
- Many preferences to set up your experience how you like
— QUESTIONS —
Reach us at feedback@speaking.email
See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq
Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email
— RECOGNITION —
- Gizmodo
- "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today
- TV3 News (NZ), Paul Henry Show, Sky News
- The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph
- NZ Herald, National Business Review
- Featured by Apple in Best New Apps
- Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO
- Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards
— QUOTES —
“This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR
“Brilliant idea”—Paul Henry, TV3
“My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave
“I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton
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Reviews for Speaking Email - voice reader
MelATC
Great app! Gave me functionality I could not find anywhere else.
I really needed a way to get through my email while I was driving and out of all of the options I looked at, Speaking Email was by far the best one, nothing else was even in the running. I have been using it for several years and I can’t even say how much it has helped me stay on top of my email. This doesn’t just read your email to you but allows you to respond and file email, which is really what makes this better than any other product out there.
Joni76554
Doesn’t actually work, and there’s no support
Granting Gmail access to the app is very buggy. I tried multiple times to no avail, and without that the app is not usable.