Speaking Email Overview
What is Speaking Email? Speaking Email is an app that reads your email out loud and allows you to manage your mail by voice commands. It is ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands-free and eyes-free. The app is available in both Premium and Basic editions, with the Premium edition being free for 7 days.
Features
- Reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one
- Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter
- Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices
- Allows you to interact with your email using full-screen taps, swipes, and voice commands
- Voice recognition needs a trigger, and you can choose when to pause for a command
- Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology, letting you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending
- Simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in the future
- Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail, Office 365, Exchange, IMAP, POP, iCloud, Outlook/Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL
- Voice commands and buttons include Next, Back, Archive/Done, Flag, Trash, Reply, Forward, Ignore (thumbs down), Important (thumbs up), Block Sender, Rewind, Fast Forward, Compose, Search, Voice, Slower, Faster, People, and When
- Many preferences to set up your experience how you like.
The app has been highly recommended by various media outlets and has been featured by Apple in Best New Apps on the App Store.
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Product Details and Description of
Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands. Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free. Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition. (Note for CarPlay users: see our other app Speaking Email CP) — WHY DO I WANT IT? — FOR DRIVERS Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move. Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox. Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move. (Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CarPlay") FOR ACCESSIBILITY Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app. Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled! — HOW DOES IT WORK? — Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox. Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go. You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands. Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails. — FEATURES — - Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter - Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices - Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending - Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future - Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Office 365 (supporting MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud, Outlook/Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL - Voice commands and buttons include: Next Back Archive/Done Flag Trash Reply Forward Ignore (thumbs down) Important (thumbs up) Block Sender Rewind Fast Forward Compose Search Voice Slower Faster People When - Many preferences to set up your experience how you like — QUESTIONS — Reach us at [email protected] See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email — RECOGNITION — - Gizmodo (Jul 2020) - "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today - TV3 News (NZ), Paul Henry Show, Sky News - The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, NT News, SBS - NZ Herald, National Business Review - Featured by Apple in Best New Apps on the App Store - Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO - Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards — QUOTES — “This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR “Brilliant idea”—Paul Henry, TV3 “My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave “I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4 to 6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or two of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton https://speaking.email/page/privacy https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use
Top Reviews
By Looner88997
Best customer service!!
The way this app functions is tremendous especially for someone like me who can no longer look at my smartphone due to my eye problem. So the app works very smoothly and it is easy to learn and very easy to use. I highly recommend it. The best part is superb customer service. I wrote to the company about an issue I was having and the app developer corresponded with me in less than an hour and actually fixed a bug in the system and the problem was corrected within a few hours. It is so helpful to be able to speak directly and quickly to the app developer. This is such a helpful and beneficial product, it is so well done. I highly highly recommend purchasing it. It is well worth the money to stay with the premium edition. Because of this app my eyes are already feeling the relief.
By Spelt1231
Exceptional!
I have a client who has essential lost all sight. This has been the best email program I’ve been able to find for his needs. SIRI’s capabilities just didn’t cut it. But this, this software is great! Something truly inspiring is watching my client go from a state of being unable to do anything with email, to now being able to correspond with friends, etc, on their own. This really has greatly improved their life! Wonderful product. Should really be highlighted by Apple.
By MXPGJW
A truly superb product!
A wonderful product, with outstanding customer service, refined and improved with features galore. For someone like me, with vision limitations, this program makes reading email absolutely simple. You could not ask for more controls, better speech quality, or user friendliness. My occasional contacts with customer service have demonstrated every single time that they are totally committed to making happy customers. They are extremely quick in solving small problems which occasionally arise. I am now in my second year of subscription, and badly wish that a similar product could be found for windows on my PC. I could not rate this product highly enough. If there were a 10 star rating or a 100 star rating, it would be very appropriate. Larry H. Amherst NY USA
