The text will be highlighted as your iPhone read it, so you can keep your place. If you have trouble following along with the dictation, you can go back to Spoken Content > Highlight Content and turn on Highlight Content. It won’t get in the way - you can make it transparent by setting the Idle Opacity and you can move it out of the way by dragging it around. Go back to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speech Controller and turn on Show Controller. If you have a hard time doing the swipe-down gesture and you want to read the entire screen on a regular basis, you can keep the Speech Controller on-screen all the time. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Leave the speech controller on all the time Turn on Highlight Content to keep your place as it is reading to you. Turn on the Speech Controller to access the Speak Screen feature all the time.

Your phone will continue reading to you even if you switch to a different app.

A control will appear on-screen where you can change the dictation speed, pause, and skip forward or backward. When you activate it, your phone will dictate a full article in Safari, an entire iMessage conversation, all of the text in a picture and more - and you don’t have to select anything first. This gesture can take some practice to get right - swipe down from the center, a little bit below the notch. To speak the entire contents of the screen, swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Read the entire screen Swipe down with two fingers to read an entire article in Safari, all the text in a Photo or an entire iMessage conversation. You can select text from websites and apps, iMessages and even printed words and handwriting from pictures in your photo library.

Wherever you are, you can tap and hold to select text, then tap Speak from the pop-up menu. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Read selected text (You also can change Siri’s voice by going back to Settings > Siri & Search > Siri Voice.) After selecting text on websites, iMessages or in Photos, tap “Speak” to hear it read out loud. Dictation uses the same voice you use for Siri, but you can tap Voices to pick a different one. In Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, you can enable Speak Selection and Speak Screen. How to make your iPhone read text out loud

Macbook read out loud