# Speaks Album — recognize text and speaks it

> recognize text and speaks it (iPhone/iPad app by NO WOO KYOUNG.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/speaks-album/id6472430215 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NO WOO KYOUNG](https://appshunter.io/developer/352275899)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 7 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
- Released: 2023-11-19
- Data updated: 2026-02-26
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/speaks-album/id6472430215/reviews.md

## What is Speaks Album?

Speaks Album - recognize text from your photos and speaks it right away.

Speaks Album is a tool to recognize the text from your photos and speaks it right away.
It's recommended that you have iOS 16 version that to be recognized various languages.

Main View
* Camera Icon - to use the photos from your photo album.

Image View
* [ Edit area ] - edit the target area. you can drag and zoom the image.
* Buttons
  - [ recognize ] - recognize the text from the image.
  - [ speak ] - speak the recognized text.
  - [ pause/resume ] - pause/resume speaking.
  - [ stop ] - stop speaking. 
  - [ actions ]
     - save text to pasteboard.
     - setting speech voice and volumes.
     - setting recognition languages.
     - setting recognition options.
     - Delete the image.
* Touching the image that toggles to show/hide the buttons
  
iOS 16 supports English (United States), French (France), Italian (Italy), German (Germany),
Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil),
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Cantonese Simplified, Cantonese Traditional,
Korean (South Korea), Japanese (Japan), Russian (Russia), Ukrainian (Ukraine)

iOS 17 supports more languages like Thai (Thailand), vi-VT.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4 — 2023-12-09

* Image View
    - larger display devices like iPhone X
      shows small sized banner during for the landscape orientation.
    - actions popup with the safeAreaLayoutGuide.

### 1.3 — 2023-12-07

* Adaptive layout
  - support Split View for iPad. 
  - Image View - fixed buttons for device orientation.

### 1.2 — 2023-12-05

* Image View
    - fixed un-intended display of Pause/Resume button.
    - recognized texts could not be editable.
  * Organize
    - Visit web page

### 1.1 — 2023-12-04

* Image View
  - Touching the image that toggles to show/hide the buttons
  - Pause/Resume, Stop button appears during speaking
* design for the Launch Screen

### 1.0 — 2023-11-19

No release notes.

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