My text to speech suddenly stopped working

Hi hengdog,

Welcome to the Apple (user-to-user) Community.

Re: My text to speech suddenly stopped working

You could try re-starting your iPhone: Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

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Wondering if text to speech was accidentally turned off:

How to:

Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback - Apple Support

Eg:

1. Says: "Go to Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content".

You can adjust any of the settings there ... (details in the article if needed).

or

You could use Siri: Say something like: “Hey Siri .. Speak screen.”

or

Select the text, then tap Speak (There are more options in the above article)

Hope this helps :-)

Hey hengdog,

We'd recommend reviewing this article as it provides steps to check your settings to ensure Spoken Content is properly enabled: Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback - Apple Support

"Change the speech settings

1. Go to Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
2. Adjust any of the following:

• Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button.
• Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
• Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.
• Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.
• Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for the onscreen and external keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.
  • To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.
  • Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.
  • Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.
  • Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken."

Thanks!