 Hi, this is Ebony and welcome to this tutorial on how to use the Text-to-Speech Accessibility feature on the iPad. This feature allows you to have the iPad to speak text when needed. In order to use the Text-to-Speech Accessibility feature on the iPad, we need to enable it first and we do that by going into Settings and then we find the Accessibility option on the left in the Settings menu and then it opens up the Accessibility options and we're going to choose the one Spoken Content. When you get into Spoken Content, we'll find all the different choices we have for how to have text spoken on the iPad. So your first option is Speak Selection, which means you can select a bit of text and it will speak it. Speak Screen, take two fingers swipe down from the top of the screen and it will speak the content of the screen. You also can turn on a speech controller. You can determine whether or not you want the content to be highlighted or not. As it is spoken, you have typing feedback options for spoken content in which you can choose whether or not that is spoken anytime you type. You have the different voices that you can choose from. You can change the speaking rate of those voices and then anytime you want specific words pronounced in a certain way, you put those pronunciations here. In the Speech Controller, if we turn that on, you get a little icon here or a symbol on the side that you can tap on and when needed, you can easily get your spoken content or text-to-speech options enabled. Alright, so let's put a section on a piece of text. So if we go on to the web, here I have an article about tigers. So the way speech-to-text works, the first option we have is Speak Selection. So if I take my finger and hold it on the text and then highlight a piece of text, tap Speak. After a century of decline, it will speak that text. The other option was Speak Screen. I was taking my two fingers from the top of the screen, swiping a little. Adopt a tiger. Give a ge- And it will speak the entire screen. It will read the entire screen. And the little menu pops out so that you can control when you want it to continue to read, when you need it to stop, and you can also change the speed by tapping on the button on the end. Another quick tip for you when you're in Safari's browser, that you can go in the top left corner and you can choose to read a view. It'll get rid of images and non-essential text. And this will make Speak Screen work a lot easier and it'll also be easier for highlighting specific paragraphs and text when using the Speak Selection option. Also when using looking at PDFs, it works very similarly. This is when the speech controller comes in handy because you can just tap on the little hand, tap on the text you want read, and it will begin to read it for you. Got allergies. More people in the United States have allergies today compared with- And then the same thing applies to any other piece of text that you want read on the iPad. If it is an image with text, it will not read those. So make sure that you have text that can be tapped on, highlighted, or use your Speak Screen options and text-to-speech feature on the iPad will work perfectly for you. Thanks for watching. Be sure to like, comment, or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so that you don't miss out on the next episode.