Last evening, their was a school bus crash down the street from me.  Being a news hound (and a son of a fire fighter), I wanted to see if their was anyone hurt.  My iPhone notified me that their was an update to the crash on a local newspaper site so I went there.  The article was long and I didn’t have time to read all of it.

By accident, I found a nice feature that allows the iOS device to read a web page with (what sounds like) Siri‘s voice.  Here’s how to activate it:

1.  Go to a web page that you wish the device to read.
2.  Hold your finger on the screen until you see a light blue block around the article.
3.  A pop-up window will come up with two options: COPY and SPEAK.
4.  Using the dots, move the blue square around the paragraphs that you wish to read.
5.  Tap SPEAK.
6.  The device will begin reading the selected text.

Is the device speaking to fast or slow?  Here’s how to control that:

1.  Go into SETTINGS > GENERAL > ACCESSIBILITY.
2.  Select the “SPEAK SELECTION” option.
3.  Find the “SPEAK RATE” option.  Turtle icon = slower, rabbit icon = faster.

Thats it.