Does the app have an option yet to have it read the document to you, like the desktop app? I use the regular mic for diction but I was just wondering If i was missing it? Thanks.
Well, Scrivener iOS doesn’t specifically have the feature – but your iPad does…
Just select the text you want read. The pop-up menu above it will have a Speak item, and touch that will get a reading with the voice you’ve set up on the iPad.
Now, this works fine on a Scrivener ‘page’ - a single document, and you can adjust which voice you want – and often importantly, matters like the Rate setting, which can make a voice clearer. You find those choices in iPad settings, under Accessibility | Spoken Content.
Getting a larger portion or all of your manuscript read takes a little more.
Unfortunately, you can’t select text in the ‘draft navigator’ – the full-document preview you can access from the small three-line icon on the left below a text page.
So the trick of it is to do a Complile of your document, Share that to Pages, and then select any amount of the text you want spoken, then tap the Speak button, as above.
For me, the most dependable way of entering Compile is to use the Binder, by sliding the Draft, Manuscript, or whatever you’ve called it to the left – then you’ll see a Compile button. Set the Compile format to Word, which Pages accepts, and do your Compile. The share button will appear on the top right of the result, and that will let you easily send the full text to Pages.
As most things with Scrivener iOS, once you’ve done it a time or two, getting your text spoken should feel easy…
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