TalkMe - The First Ever Text to Voice Converter For Your SMS! | Planet iPhones

Posted on 01-24-2009
TalkMe - The First Ever Text to Voice Converter For Your SMS!
Tagged Under (Utilities) by Fable

TalkMe

     TalkMe is the very first text-to-speech application for the iPhone that reads your text messages and says them back to you in a very creepy male robotic voice.

     It includes a settings panel where you can choose and set your language by typing in the shortcode that represents it. The application supports a wide range of languages such as English, French, Italian, Spanish and so on. There is also a setting to only show unread messages so you can hear them as you read them for the first time, and also a setting for the speed at which the robotic voice reads them.

     Essentially it is a fun little app, especially for those very private messages or those that turn the air blue. Amazingly it is also very accurate, it seems to know when a question has been asked in the SMS as it changes the tone of the voice.

     If your looking at the image above and wondering why at the end of the message it says “Roman Twenty” then allow me to explain. If, like me, your girlfriend or boyfriend sends you countless messages with kisses at the end then you will find out what i mean. It interprets “xx” as the roman numeral for the number 20, and literally says just that at the end of the message!

     Well done to TeoG, the developer, for a great and entertaining app. It is available in Cydia now for jailbroken iPhones only.

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Comments

Chucky on 24 January, 2009 at 10:14 am #

I can’t get this app to work.


chris on 24 January, 2009 at 5:54 pm #

superb idea, but i cant get this to work either. seems to be the view of several users. please help!!


Fable on 24 January, 2009 at 6:21 pm #

Which bit isn’t working? Make sure your phone isn’t in silent mode.


Gene on 24 January, 2009 at 8:35 pm #

I installed this but when i click the icon it just crashes…and i uninstalled it but the icon is still their..i think this app pissed me off to say the least lol


Anthony on 24 January, 2009 at 9:20 pm #

same problem here. tap the icon and it looks like it’s about to load (all icons fly out from screen) then they all come back. what’s the deal?


chris on 25 January, 2009 at 8:46 am #

not on silent, downloads ok, and icon appears as it should. when i click on the icon there is a blank screen for a moment and then it just returns to the home screen again!have tried this several times now and same result each time!?


chris on 25 January, 2009 at 8:48 am #

ps. could it be something to do with my carrier? its vodafone uk.


Fable on 25 January, 2009 at 9:04 am #

which firmware you guys running - 2.1, 2.2??


Anthony on 25 January, 2009 at 9:32 am #

i’m running jailbroken unlocked 2.2


chris on 25 January, 2009 at 10:59 am #

2.2


Fable on 25 January, 2009 at 11:55 am #

Strange, i’ve got iPhone 3G running jailbroken 2.2 and it works fine, try uninstalling and reinstalling


chris on 25 January, 2009 at 12:29 pm #

done this several times but same outcome.guess i will just have to hope that the author comes up with some update to fix things for us guys!


Kally on 25 January, 2009 at 11:35 pm #

I’m on 2.1 and I have it installed but unfortunately no clue how to use it. The text does appear and if you tap it - it does say it but it does not automatically work with SMS and if you have to tap it to hear it - it’s almost the same as just reading what someone has written.


Hilty on 26 January, 2009 at 1:36 pm #

Commenting on what Kelly said above? The app is a neat toy but that’s it. It is non functional unless booted and does not work automatically with SMS. more….If it did all these things, it would only really be useful if it did what it is missing, while driving.

What would be astoundingly useful IF it did what it does and everything else it does not that I just mentioned, would be SPEECH to TEXT…..NOW THAT would be a hot App.


ilir on 27 January, 2009 at 5:38 pm #

this seems really cool


nick on 28 January, 2009 at 9:28 pm #

yea, i have a U.S. AT&T jailbroken 3g iphone and all it does is look like its gonna load, then it doesnt. and yea, i tried reinstalling it and such


Lilskaterpunk on 29 January, 2009 at 10:19 am #

So how does this work? I uninstalled and reinstalled it and finally got it working! When u open the app it goes to a list of sayings, is there anything u can do besides listen to them?


marcus on 21 February, 2009 at 6:20 pm #

well I uninstalled and reinstalled it and it still doesnt work


marylou on 10 March, 2009 at 6:02 am #

I also have installed & uninstalled & reinstalled. The icon is present the screen opens stays blank and returns to home screen. There is no configuration menu or settings anywhere.


TeoG on 10 March, 2009 at 4:04 pm #

Hi to All,
in some iphone there are some problems on user dir permissions.

You can try to fix it using SBSettings or BossPrefs utility (installable by Cydia). By SBSetting or BossPrefs, press the button “More”, you can access to the menu “Extras” and then push the button “Fix Dir Permissions”. Exit to SBSettings.

Retry to run TalkMe and now should be work!!.

Bye
TeoG


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