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How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

Posted December 17, 2011 at 5:38pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to make Siri speak selected text on your iPhone 4S.

Step One
Press to select Settings from your Springboard.
How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

Step Two
Press to choose General from the Settings menu.
How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

Step Three
Select Accessibility from the Settings menu.
How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S


Step Four
Tap Speak Selection from the Accessibility menu.
How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

Step Five
Make sure the Speak Selection switch is turned ON. You can also adjust Siri's speaking rate using the slider.
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Step Six
Press the Home button to return to your Springboard and launch an app such as Safari.
How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S How to Make Siri Speak Selected Text on Your iPhone 4S

Step Seven
Use your finger to select and portion of text then click the Speak button the pops up to read it aloud. You can press the Pause button to stop reading.
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brineesh
brineesh - February 23, 2012 at 10:30pm
ok taksh i phon 4 Siri Speak Selected Text wark ok taksh
Slim Morecambe
Slim Morecambe - December 18, 2011 at 11:03am
Loser Iv been doing it on my 4 since there was a iOS update when they released the 4s, go to a lyrics site and get the strange voice to sing/rap the lyrics
t11chb
t11chb - December 18, 2011 at 8:30am
Mine is a different voice from Siri
JBrealow
JBrealow - December 17, 2011 at 7:09pm
Not only iPhone 4s can do that! All iOS 5 devices can speak selected text
ammadz
ammadz - December 18, 2011 at 5:26am
Totally!! and not only way behind the news but also false reporting - it's not Siri speaking the selected text.
Topher
Topher - December 17, 2011 at 7:04pm
Once again iClarified behind on news again.
Young
Young - December 17, 2011 at 7:03pm
Whys this news ? I knew about this the day I bought my iPhone 4s!!
Edward1983
Edward1983 - December 17, 2011 at 6:30pm
For those with spanish language adjust de cellphone to spanish language and Siri will read on spanish too.
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