News Speech for Android
This should be a must-have Android application.
News Speech will read your news from RSS feeds out loud. Now you don't have to stay glued to your phone to read online newspaper. News Speech allow you to select news articles, add them into a playlist, click on 'Play' and have them read aloud.
Feature List:
* Read news article from RSS feeds out loud using native Android Text To Speech engine
* News by category
* Download news brief automatically
* Add/remove news article to/from the playlist
* Change the order of an article in the playlist
* Change speech rate
* View news brief
* View full news article
* Save downloaded news on SD Card
* Hide it and let it reads aloud in background
Note: In this version, we support subscribing to Yahoo! News RSS feeds only. No notification, icon and bookmark ads.
I wish those who go "it doesn't work" would get a clue first - they'd likely find out it's their speech engine, or lack of one. If this is you, go to your Android Voice Input and Output. - Text to Speech Settings and find out if you have one enabled, or have one at all. If it's stock, chances are it's intolerable, so try Ivona (don't be conned by SVOX, it's an expensive joke, and it's on you). IVONA is free, and is at best much less intolerable than the alternatives, but you can't get better on a phone.
Under my language & keyboard settings I have the built-in google tts which works, but app for not seem to read anything, maybe we just need a tutorial to understand how it works. Managed to randomly get it to work, from main screen you need to check the headlines first then click play button, but you may need to tap or delete some of the headlines to get it going. Very buggy in my opinion. HTC one X
Font cannot zoom. Cannot choose speaking in full article page. No highlight sentence when reading. Cannot highlight words and share to other apps.
Shaunwilliams
Only works with Yahoo kinda buggy does work
Great idea. Too bad it doesn't actually work.
by S####:
asking for subscription, does not start without it