Password manager apps make life easier by removing the burden of remembering hundreds of complex passwords to keep our accounts safe. But when we need to type a very long password from a smartphone into a computer that is not ours, and where we cannot access our password database, the situation quickly becomes frustrating.
If our phone is smart enough to remember all passwords, why should it not also help us spell them out when needed? Text-to-Speech (TTS) engines are designed for natural language, and when asked to pronounce random characters they may produce unexpected results.
Raison d’etre
Spell decomposes input text into individual characters and provides a simplified view to browse them one by one like a magnifier. Each character is also associated with a descriptive label intelligible to the TTS engine, enabling correct pronunciation. In particular, uppercase Latin letters A-Z are mapped to values from the English Telephone Alphabet (Adam, Bob, etc.), making tasks such as these easier:
- writing complex passwords on computers where we do not have direct access to password managers
- typing serial numbers when copied content cannot be pasted
- phone-based transmission of complex data
Other features:
- support for the first 255 printable UTF-8 characters commonly used by password generators, including Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets with special characters
- one-tap action to run spelling on the last copied text
- share-text support for instant spelling inside the app
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from camera or gallery
- voice recognition to obtain spelling
- masked characters during typing and spelling
- translated in 6 languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Russian*
- Samsung MultiWindow support
*always verify your installed TTS engine supports the selected language
Minimum support: Android 4.1 (JellyBean)
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