Talking Alarm Clock - News Alarm HD

A beautifully designed speaking alarm clock that reads the news, weather, your calendar events and much more. With five animated clock styles and fully featured alarms, you will never need another alarm clock app again.

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Customer reviews:


Great - ★★★★★ - This is by far one... No THE coolest app I have gotten yet, very "Jarvis" like (Iron Man)
Great app - ★★★★★ - Love the way it reads your appointments of the day as an alarm. Cool it can also read news feeds in different voices.
Great - ★★★★★ - Great, Love It!
Cool app - ★★★★ -Works great. The synthesized voices are surprisingly good.


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✓ Wake up to the news, weather, your calendar events, GMail messages or other talking alarms
✓ Over 300 news feeds including Sky, Fox and BBC and many more
✓ 5 clock styles in analogue, flip and digital format
✓ Supports high resolution iPhone 4 Retina screen
✓ iOS 4 multitasking for fast app switching
✓ Support background-multitasking to play alarms even when using other apps
✓ 4 speaking voices (male, female, US and UK)

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Features:

** Read GMail Messages **

Connect to your GMail account and read out any unread messages in your inbox.

** Speaking News Reader **

News Alarm comes packed with a directory of hundreds of news feeds including CNN, Fox and BBC. The news feeds can be rated within the app from one to five stars, and the average user rating is displayed. This makes it easy to find the best sources.

Once youve selected your news source, you can customize the number of stories read, the voice used and the speed of the speech.

To give the real news bulletin feel, in between each headline a sound is played. You can choose from 11 sounds - from Big Ben to a retro alarm clock.

While the news reader is speaking the news, the story is also displayed on the screen together with the all the details from the story including images and links. The playing alarm can be paused, skipped backward to listen to items again, or skipped forward. A link is provided to view the full news story in Safari.

** Weather forecast **

Wake up to weather information in your current location (using GPS) or any other global location (search by town, place of interest, address or zip code).

** Calendar events **

The app connects to your iPhone calendar and reads out any events scheduled for the day. It also looks in your contacts and lets you know if its anyones birthday.

** Speech Actions **

NewsAlarm lets you create a list of speech actions to perform when the alarm goes off. This includes reading news feeds and calendar events, but also custom phrases and speaking the time.

** Alarm sounds **

In addition to the speaking alarms, you can also have a regular digital alarm, retro alarm buzzing sound and even birdsong!

** Customisable Clock Styles **

Choose from 5 customizable clock styles, in analogue, digital and flip styles.

** Alarms **

Create any number of alarms that play a sequence of speech actions. Set the time and recurrence of each alarm, and listen to the alarm at any time.


Future versions:

1.4 - Wake up to music from your iTunes library
1.5 - More alarm actions!