Introduction
Have you ever wondered what TTS customizations you could do on your iPhone?
In today’s post, I’m going to outline how you can install the CerePlay TTS engine for more natural sounding text to speech.
A few notes before you begin
I do not recommend using these voices as daily drivers.
While it can work and there are screen reader variants for these voices, you’ll get better performance with your iPhone if you use a built-in voice.
These are paid voices and as if this writing, cost $0.99.
Without further adieu, let’s get started.
Step 1: Download the app
Open the app store on your home screen and select the search tab by dragging your finger along the bottom edge of your screen.
In the search bar type “CerePlay”
In the search results, find the item called “CerePlay – The CereProc Text to speech app” and download.
Step 2: Download voices
When the download finishes you’ll find an open button, select to open the app. Swipe right to move through the screen finding a list of languages.
Note that these languages are in no particular order so you’ll have to swipe around to get to all the voices.
Once you’ve selected language and then swipe right to access all the voices under that language. Remember that each voice will be repeated multiple times.
Select a voice to view its details.
On this screen, you’ll find:
- The voice name
- Voice dialect and gender
- Price
If you keep moving down the page, you’ll eventually find options to choose a voice version and they include:
- High Quality (this is the recommended option for reading, so use this option to get the best experience.
- Balanced (this option can be used with screen readers if you don’t mind a performance hit for nice inflection.)
- Screen Reader (This is the best way to go if you like the sound of a voice however, I would not use this voice as a daily driver if you need the best performance out of your iPhone.
so, That is how you get natural sounding voices for iPhone.