Importing a Speech File
Once you have a .txt speech file saved somewhere reachable from your iPhone (see Formatting Your Speech File), here’s how to bring it into SpeakerView.
Step by step
- Open SpeakerView. You’ll land on the home screen.
- Tap “Import Speech File.”
- A file picker will open, showing your Files app locations — iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, and any other connected storage (like Google Drive or Dropbox, if you have those apps installed).
- Navigate to your
.txtfile and tap it. - SpeakerView reads the file immediately and splits it into cards. You’ll stay on the home screen — this gives you a chance to translate your cards first, if you want to, before you start presenting.
There’s no confirmation screen or “processing” step — if the import worked, the home screen’s Start Presentation button becomes available right away.
What if nothing seems to happen?
If you tap a file and the app doesn’t seem to react, the file likely couldn’t be read as plain text. See File Won’t Import or Cards Look Wrong for the most common causes and how to fix them.
Trying it before you have your own file ready
If you just want to see how SpeakerView works before writing your own speech, tap “Load Sample Speech” on the home screen instead of importing. This loads a short built-in example speech, already split into cards, so you can explore navigation, translation, and the timer without needing a file of your own.
Importing a new file later
Importing a new file always replaces the cards currently loaded in SpeakerView — there’s no multi-speech library. If you’ve translated your current speech and then import a different file, the translation is cleared too, since it belonged to the previous speech. This is expected: import your final draft last, right before you translate or present.
Next step
- To present in more than one language at once, see Bilingual / Co-Presenting Setup.
- Otherwise, you’re ready — tap Start Presentation and you’re on stage. See Quick Start: Your First Presentation for a full walkthrough.