Useful tricks when you want to check the pronunciation of English words on your iPhone

Nowadays, reading and writing English can be done with the help of a translation site that has become smarter recently, but conversation, especially speaking, can't be helped. If this pronunciation is bad, the other party will hear back, such as Excuse Me? Or Sorry? This is all about getting used to and experiencing, so I have no choice but to work hard on my daily training.

"Input feedback" is one of the iPhone functions that can be used as a daily measure to improve English proficiency. It will read out the words you typed on the software keyboard on the spot. The iPhone's reading function reads out various languages ​​such as English and Japanese with correct pronunciation / intonation (although the intonation may be slightly broken when it comes to sentences), so I used it to check the pronunciation of English words. It is the size to cover.

To prepare, just open the screen in the order of "Settings" → "Accessibility" → "Read aloud content" → "Input feedback" and turn on the "Read a word" switch. It's noisy to read each character aloud, so turn off the character feedback switch.

All you have to do is display the software keyboard in Notes, Email, Safari's search bar, etc. and enter English words. If you then enter a delimiter between words such as a period, colon, or space, it will be read aloud with the voice selected in "Settings" → "Accessibility" → "Reading content" → "Voice".

The language applied when reading aloud is determined by the language of the selected keyboard, but in iOS 13, it is fixed to the language applied to the entire system. Even if it is troublesome, open the screen in the order of "Settings" → "General" → "Language and region" → "Language used by iPhone" and select English. If you don't, you'll hear pronunciations that are completely unhelpful, such as "don't" being read aloud as "donty."

Easy explanation of operation procedure