Social media should be accessible to everyone, including those of us who struggle with reading and/or writing. Here’s a “nearly free”  iOS app that offers support for both reading and writing on Twitter and Facebook.

SocialSpeech is an app for iPhone or iPad that will read your Twitter tweets or Facebook updates in the preferred accent of your selected language. With SocialSpeech, you can also use voice-to-text to “write” your tweets or Facebook posts. The app is easy to use, and the quality of both text-to-speech and voice recognition is excellent.

SocialSpeech isn’t quite perfect, but I think it offers a great return on a 99 cent investment! I’ve tried it on both iPhone and iPad, and it works well on both.  My biggest complaint is that a rather large ‘Cancel’ button appears while the app is reading, and this can cover up the text being read. This is especially problematic on the smaller iPhone screen. 

Here’s a video by ‘Crazy Mike’ that shows SocialSpeech in action on an iPhone.

SocialSpeech iPhone App Review – CrazyMikesapps from Michael Vallez on Vimeo.