Speaking Email - voice reader4.0.3 - App Store

Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands.
Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free.
Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition.
(Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP')

- WHY DO I WANT IT? -

FOR DRIVERS

Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move.

Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox.

Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move.

(Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP")

FOR ACCESSIBILITY

Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app.

Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled!
- HOW DOES IT WORK? -

Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox.

Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go.

You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands.

Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails.

- FEATURES -

- Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter

- Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices

- Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending

- Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future

- Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In)

- Voice commands and buttons include:
Next
Back
Archive/Done
Flag
Trash
Reply
Forward
Ignore (thumbs down)
Important (thumbs up)
Block Sender
Rewind
Fast Forward
Compose
Search
Voice
Slower
Faster
People
When

- Many preferences to set up your experience how you like

- QUESTIONS -

Reach us at feedback@speaking.email
See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq
Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email

- RECOGNITION -
- Gizmodo
- "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today
- TV3 News (NZ), Sky News
- The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph
- NZ Herald, National Business Review
- Featured by Apple in Best New Apps
- Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO
- Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards

- QUOTES -

“This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”-NBR

“My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” - Willis Hargrave

“I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” - Scott Middleton

https://speaking.email/page/privacy
https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use

Version History NEW! Listen while talking - continuous listening for commands option - you can now interject and say a command even while emails are being read out to you
See under Preferences > Voice Commands 4.0.3 Sep 2 NEW! Listen while talking - continuous listening for commands option - you can now interject and say a command even while emails are being read out to you
See under Preferences > Voice Commands 4.0.2 Aug 25 - Update for iOS26
- NEW! Continuous listening for commands option 4.0.1 Aug 17 - Update for iOS26
- NEW! Continuous listening for commands option

Also:
- Command button setup screen now shows buttons that won't fit on screen in grey
- Improved language detection
- Fixed groups not showing up after adding
- We have now added the ability to disable a language that has been accidentally added
- "Language" command lets you override which language the email should be read out in
- "Check" command checks for new mail immediately and goes back to the start of your inbox
- "Filter" command gives you instant access to change filtering on flagged, unread, and unplayed
- Improvements to "search" command 4.0.0 Aug 4 Fix for Microsoft Intune causing crash 3.0.9 Mar 6 - Improved speech recognition 3.0.8 Mar 4 - Fixed speech recognition randomly cutting out
- Added speech recognition start and stop sounds 3.0.7 Feb 17 - Improvements for blind and low vision users
- Misc fixes 3.0.5 Jan 29 - Microsoft login security upgrade with improved options (including Authenticator and Face ID)
- Restore previous settings
- Microsoft Intune fixes
- MacOS fixes 3.0.4 12/18/2025 - Microsoft login security upgrade with improved options (including Authenticator and Face ID)
- Restore previous settings
- Microsoft Intune fixes
- MacOS fixes 3.0.3 12/16/2025 - Restore previous settings
- Microsoft login security upgrade with improved options (including Authenticator and Face ID) 3.0.1 12/08/2025 You can now sign in securely to Microsoft 365 accounts using Microsoft Authenticator 3.0.0 12/04/2025 Updated user agent string for Microsoft Entra compatibility 2.9.5 08/21/2025 Outlook Focused Inbox
For fans of Outlook Focused Inbox, you can now choose whether to use Microsoft’s Focused Inbox filtering by enabling it under Account Settings in Speaking Email. When turned on, only emails from your Focused tab will be read aloud - helping you stay on top of important messages and skip the clutter.

Favourites & Groups
You can now set up groups under Preferences > Favourites & Groups, give them a nickname, and simply say “group” when prompted for recipients while composing an email. This makes it easy to send to multiple people at once.

Other
- Improvements to Microsoft 365 refreshing
- Fixed br tags showing in keyboard mode
- Support for unicode emojis for smileys
- Gmail threading improvements
- New dictation editing option to 'delete (num) words', eg 'delete 3 words' 2.9.4 06/23/2025 Landscape mode enabled on iPhone 2.9.3 01/31/2025 Have your email read out to you and action it by voice command! 2.9.0 09/17/2024 - Ability to switch off reading out sender name and "unread email"
- New option to set up 'Dictation Auto Replace Expansions' which will replace any phrase you choose with your custom replacement 2.7.3 09/17/2023 - Fixed 'undefined' subject bug in Compose
- Added feature to disable commands 2.7.2 07/04/2023 - fixed issue with no speech recogntion prompt after subject
- fixed new Yahoo and AOL integration using secure sign in 2.7.1 05/16/2023 - New Yahoo and AOL integration using secure sign in
- fixed issue with speech recogntion stopping
- can now tap command transcript to restart listening
- changed main menu to prompt for voice commands even when no account
- made 'account' command go to create account if there are no accounts
- option to skip message when forwarding 2.7.0 05/11/2023 OCR text extraction from scanned PDF attachments 2.6.9 04/13/2023 Rebuild for latest operating system 2.6.8 02/27/2023 updated for iOS 16 2.6.5 10/10/2022 - Fixed issue with VoiceOver speech being recognised as a command 2.6.4 08/31/2022 - Fixed undo delete on Microsoft 365. 2.6.3 08/25/2022