text to speech iphone app

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Good Evening,

I'm looking for a simple text to speech for iphone app development. I see numerous posts about this including ...

Question though, this link is all third party developers to use text to speech. I thought apple has a class reference to create speech? (nsspeechsynthesizer) Can someone please explain? Does apple not provide this for us?

Thanks

possible duplicate of [iOS 7 Text To Speech Api](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22561926/ios-7-text-to-speech-api) — mmmmmm, Dec 19 '14 at 18:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '13 at 02:14

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NSSpeechSynthesizer works fine on Mac.VSSpeechSynthesizer is available for the iOS - but it is a private API and as such will likely be rejected from the app store. However you can still make apps for private consumption. I consider this a bug as it makes creating accessible apps for the partially sighted for instance, harder. I have filed Bug ID #: 9451650 Bug Title: VSSpeechSynthesizer is Private.

answered Mar 07 '13 at 02:14

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so as of now apple doesnt offer a class for us to use in app thats will be included in app store? – solarissf Mar 07 '13 at 02:18
if I use a free non-private api, will apple reject it from store? – solarissf Mar 07 '13 at 02:21
Apple will not reject it if you use a free non-private api. – junkor Mar 07 '13 at 02:29

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '13 at 12:06

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iOS 7 has the AVSpeechSynthesizer class

answered Oct 20 '13 at 12:06

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '13 at 02:13

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As other answers have mentioned, Apple does not include NSSpeechSynthesizer in iOS, only in Mac OS X.

answered Mar 07 '13 at 02:13

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