The AV Foundation Framework received a few extras when iOS 7 launched. One of those is the AVSpeechSynthesizer class which lets you have the device read out text in the voice of Siri.

The class is quite small in that it only has 4 methods and 3 properties which are:

Synthesizing Speech
€“ speakUtterance:
Controlling Speech Synthesis
€“ continueSpeaking
€“ pauseSpeakingAtBoundary:
paused property
speaking property
€“ stopSpeakingAtBoundary:
Managing the Delegate
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