Hark is a text to speech app I built in 3 hours based on the new AVSpeechSynthesizer
SDK in iOS 7.
I first learned about this SDK from Mattt Thompson's great NSHipster blog post about iOS 7.
Check out this video showing how the app works and why I built it.
This app will be available on the App Store for free and I'm releasing the source as an example for other developers to encourage you to put text to speech in your apps!
Here are some features you might want to borrow for your apps:
UIMenuItem
to read the currently selected textBe sure to follow me on twitter!
Thanks to Eric Wolfe for his awesome language voice detection pull request!
Special thanks to Mattt Thompson for bringing AVSpeechSynthesizer
to my attention, Drew Wilson for the Execute book and mentality, and Sam Soffes for convincing me to open source this project!