Siri’s Speak Selection Feature Reads Text Out Loud

Here’s a nice little tip for Siri fanatics. Did you know that you can have Siri speak any selection of text out loud anywhere in iOS 5 on the iPhone 4S?

By enabling a nifty feature in Settings, a simple “Speak” option can be shown any time you select a chunk of text. Siri can then read that text out loud through your iPhone’s speaker at a pre-programmed speed.

If you navigate to Settings, General, Accessibility, and then Speak Selection, you can enable the Siri feature on iOS 5. Once you turn the setting on, you can set the speed that you want Siri to read text back to you.

Siri will give you a test reading very time you move the slider to change the speed. This will let you determine which speed is best for you. I find that placing the slider at about the 20% mark is the best setting for having Siri read back to you at a normal pace. Make sure your iPhone’s speaker volume is turned up high enough so that you can actually hear when Siri reads.

This is a great tip for reading messages in the car or listening to longer emails. Let us know what you use it for in the comments below!

[Via iDownload Blog]

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Apple’s SIRI to compete with Google

The all new SIRI app from the latest iphone 4S is considered to be the smartest and the most intelligent apps of all times. The app had proved itself in delivering all sorts of required information about anything and everything and that too without displaying any sort of advertising or taking too much of time. This has created a clean completion among this app and the other search engines online, especially Google which is considered to be the best available search engines. Unlike the search engines, SIRI won’t annoy you with the advertisements that keep popping up all the time and will get you the exact information without having to search for the exact response.

If users get accustomed to the use of SIRI, just verbal communication would mean a lot rather than going for the Google website, typing the query and waiting for the response that might definitely take a little bit of time. This is no doubt going to keep the competition high as more and more people would prefer an iPhone rather than Google. Moreover whenever you clicked on a Google ad, it would have made money and would have given you a huge list of search topics which again you need to filter out to get the exact result.

SIRI on the other hand, would completely relieve you from the ad phenomenon and would give you only precise and required information. So SIRI is certainly treated as a better option over Google and other search engines. As per a small study conducted among the iphone4S users, most of them admitted to the fact that SIRI had an upper hand over Google search engine. There were people who hadn’t been face to face with the search giant since the day they got their iPhone 4S. The striking thing is that SIRI even gets you the Google website if asked to do so. 

Technology always keeps growing and it’s always about the survival of the fittest. Till yesterday Google was a stiff competitor for all the other search engines but now SIRI has spelled its magic and created a new era of verbal response system.

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