Accepted formats: Mt 1:1 text lines, tab/CSV rows (book, chapter, verse, text), JSON, XML (OSIS, Zefania, USFX, or book/chapter/verse tags), or plain text with book/chapter headings and numbered verses.

If a book name or command keeps being misheard, enter it, tap Practice, and say it each time you're asked (three times). The app remembers what the recognizer writes for your voice. Google (online) and the built-in recognizer (offline) hear differently, so practice with each.

Learned on this phone:

Run this once while online. The built-in offline recognizer needs a one-time download (about 41 MB); then test in airplane mode.

• Hebrews 4 · How does Hebrews 4 start? · Romans 8:28 · First John 1 9
• What comes after “for God so loved the world” · narrow it down: In Titus 2, what comes after … or … in Titus
• Continue (pick up exactly where the reading stopped) · Next / Previous (next or previous phrase, verse, context or chapter, per the setting) · Repeat · Hint (one more word each time)
• Whole verse · Next verse · Previous verse · Next chapter · Previous chapter · Verse 12
• Change the setting: Read phrases · Read whole verse · Read context · Read three verses · Read whole chapter
• Start over · Beginning of the verse · Where am I?
• Stop or Pause (stops reading; say Continue to pick up) · Go to sleep / Resume · End session / Goodbye
• While it is reading a long passage, start with Echo: “Echo, stop” · “Echo, next” · “Echo, pause” — or just “Echo” to stop and give a command

Sample text: Psalm 23, Proverbs 3:5–6, John 1:1–5, John 3:16–17, Romans 8:28–39, Philippians 4:4–8, Hebrews 4, 1 John 1:9.