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Spoken text on iPad is not working

In accessibility, on the iPad, it has an option of spoken content. With in the settings of spoken text is highlighting, options are words, sentences, and words and sentences. However, when words is chosen spoken content does not highlight the word as it is spoken, nor does it highlight sentences when that optioned is checked. The only thing spoken text does under highlighting is to highlight the entire page. I would like to know how to fix it. I have checked an option closed it out restarted my iPad opened it back up and it still doesn’t work I’ve done this for all options. I need it’s a highlight the word as it is spoken. Which is what the iPad says that it will do. I have tried this in Kindle, books, a PDF, as well as Pages, Numbers, and iOSmail.

it is very frustrating.

Christy

iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 3rd Gen, Wi-Fi

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 12:33 PM

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Posted on Mar 17, 2021 12:17 PM

Hey Christy!


Since it's not working correctly, you may actually need to restore it to factory settings:

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings


Test to see if these features work correctly after restoring to factory settings. If they work correctly, you can try restoring from the backup:

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup


If the issue continues after restoring from the backup, you'll want to go back to factory settings since the issue may be within the backup.


Regards.

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Mar 17, 2021 12:17 PM in response to clwentz1969

Hey Christy!


Since it's not working correctly, you may actually need to restore it to factory settings:

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings


Test to see if these features work correctly after restoring to factory settings. If they work correctly, you can try restoring from the backup:

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup


If the issue continues after restoring from the backup, you'll want to go back to factory settings since the issue may be within the backup.


Regards.

Mar 17, 2021 9:47 AM in response to clwentz1969

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Christy!


We understand spoken content along with highlighting is not working as expected. We'd be happy to provide information about this.


When changing the settings for Highlighting Content, does it work correctly if you change the Sentence Color and Word Color? With default set, it won't show. However, if you set it to purple for example, it will show it underlined as well as whatever color you set to highlight the words.


We hope this clears things up.

Have a great day!

Spoken text on iPad is not working

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