Tweet Speaker – Listen to Twitter Review: Fills a Need You Never Knew You Had!

Tweet Speaker - Lister to Twitter-1
[rating: 5/5]

Tweet Speaker - Lister to Twitter-1Tweet Speaker Review: Twitter is taking over the world, and if not the world then certainly some people’s worlds, me included! But while I’m never too far away from my Twitter stream there are times when I have my hands full, when I’m driving or doing housework for example. Well now there is a viable solution to this issue in the form of Tweet Speaker from App Cubby.

Tweet Speaker is very simple, it simply reads your Twitter stream to you. Starting off you need to sign into your Twitter account, it also handles multiple accounts, and you can then either choose your timeline, mentions or one of your Twitter lists, with one of those options selected the Tweets will be loaded and you then have multiple options.

If you like you can simply read your Tweets, scrolling left and right, you also have the ability to reply, favorite and retweet. The main feature however is activated via the Play button at the bottom of the screen. Pressing that button launches the app into action and the Stephen Hawking like voice will start reading your tweets to you. It’s a little odd to hear it to begin with and the translation is not always on the money. If you are finding it difficult to understand the voice you can slow it down, or speed it up, as appropriate.

The voice will include the name of the person that is tweeting, recognizes re-tweets, replies and links which puts everything in context, it works well and can be very funny hearing your tweets read out to you, especially when it gets some of the pronunciations wrong!

Tweet Speaker - Lister to Twitter-2The app will also output to Apple TV if you want your tweets spoken out-loud to everyone and the final option is to choose a different voice. Unfortunately there are no other voices to choose from at present but the fact that the app is ready to accommodate them is a great sign.

Tweet Speaker supports Tweet Marker too so if you utilize this feature as I do via Tweetbot and Twitteriffic then this is a great addition to ensure that you don’t have to re-read, or in this case listen to, tweets that you’ve read before.

When you initially launch the app and haven’t registered your Twitter account yet you can access a News stream of the latest breaking news which is nice, however this is not accessible once you’ve registered your account. It would be nice to be able to access other people’s public lists, timelines and trending topics. The other option I’d like to see is the ability to have it automatically read your tweets when new ones arrive, at present you have to manually refresh and hit play again.

Overall though Tweet Speaker is a great app that presents your Tweets in a new and unique way and I can’t wait to see what new features and voices are provided with future updates.

Tweet Speaker is available in the App Store now for the iPhone at just $1.99.

What we like:

  • Hands free Twitter listening
  • Apple TV out
  • Tweet Marker support

What to know:

  • Currently only one voice
  • Limited to your own streams only

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One Comment on ““Tweet Speaker – Listen to Twitter Review: Fills a Need You Never Knew You Had!”

  1. TabgripforIpad

    If I was any younger and not distracted by so many things, I would have rolled my eyes at the laziness of this app. But I actually think this is quite a good idea, especially on those days and times where your eyes are too exhausted to read anything.

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