[alaskamiller]

Pretty cool in itself. Good demo of SoundGecko too.

I've been doing something similar on my iPhone for awhile:

1. Send articles to Pocket

2. Highlight article

3. Two-finger tap to bring up context menu then tap Speak

With TTS voice speed set to 1.6x and British Female and it's a good way to wake up in the morning and absorb in wikipedia entries or news.

[moioci]

I agree, please clarify, because this sounds extremely useful. Within the Pocket app, if I tap on an article's title, it doesn't highlight, it opens. Then two-finger tap does nothing. Long tap in a paragraph highlights one word with the option to speak that word.

[alaskamiller]

Now I feel bad since I used to write the support docs at Apple and I messed up here.

1. Go to Settings then Accessibility. Check that Speak Selection is On.

You can also choose Dialects and set speaking rate or if you want words highlighted as they're speaking.

2. In Pocket app select a body of text by tapping and holding on a text. Selector bars will appear, drag them to the start and the end of an article.

You can do this for anything now, websites, emails, etc. I set my voice to be South African English (since it oddly sounds natural to me) and set my speed at about a little to the left of middle.

[danialtz]

I cannot replicate what you do on step 3. Nothing comes up.