Text-to-speech in PDFs.
I love GoodNotes and I use it everyday. One thing that was missing though is the ability to select the text in order iOS/iPadOS to speak it, or ‘swipe down with two fingers to read the page’ feature in the iOS/iPadOS. I just imported a PDF book and I was trying to activate the speak mode of the iPadOS but I couldn’t do it. I actually thought that this implementation would have been already in GoodNotes since its very easy to use Apple’s API for speech synthesis and Apple provides good support for this.
Text-to-speech implementation with the iOS/iPadOS voices would be very helpful and extremely useful feature, making students’ life much much easier, especially for those who have ADHD, or other learning difficulties, and can’t keep focus while reading.
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Jessika Rogers commented
I completely agree with you!! I wish they had a built in text to speech option as well. I have tried to use the settings on my iPad itself, but like you said it does not work with Goodnotes, unlike other apps.
For example, I was changing the speaking rate on the iPad’s settings, but when I go into Goodnotes and have it read a selection of text, it is a faster speed of reading.