Like Google before it, Facebook has been striving to be all things to all people: an e-mail service, a newspaper, even a place to share videos. But it hasn't been a radio station—until now.

Friends Aloud, a new iPhone app from from VoizApp, changes that. The app reads your Facebook feed to you in the voice of a young woman, letting you catch up on social networking while driving or doing other tasks.

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If you need to be abreast of the updates that continually bombard your Facebook account, a new iPhone application has been released called “Friends Aloud” which might help you stay on top of all those updates, by reading the your Facebook updates out loud to you. Allowing you to do other things yet still stay up to date with your Facebook friends and followers, even while driving.

The Friends Aloud iPhone App reads aloud your latest Facebook news feed posts and their associated comments, and will automatically shift to reading only new posts for as long as you leave the app running. Watch a video of the new Friends Aloud iPhone application in action after the jump.

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Apple iOS device owners can now access and listen to their Facebook news feed via Friends Aloud 1.0, created by VoiZapp, Inc. It is the first iOS app to bring optimized state of the art text-to-speech technology to Facebook on all iOS devices.

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If keeping up with your Facebook news feed is so important to you that you do dumb things like read it while driving, Friends Aloud Lite can make your life safer while making sure you don't miss a status.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Friends Aloud Lite takes the past 10 posts on your Facebook news feed and reads them aloud. You can also choose to have the app read up to 50 comments left on each update. The computer voice used in Friends Aloud Lite does a better job than many robo-voices I've heard, managing to turn commonly used text-speak such as LOL and OMG into "laughing out loud" and "oh my gosh" and translating emoji into "winky face" or "frown." I found that the app handled names (even the more unusual ones) with ease, but struggled over words in caps (spelling out each letter) and most conjunctions. Punctuation also presented a bit of a challenge, which made for an entertaining listen.

I do like that Friends Aloud Lite offers muting for friends or "liked pages" you don't want to hear from. It'd be extra neat if the app could weed out photos, video and link posts, too, since you can't access them directly from the app and you could probably live without hearing titles read aloud.

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AppDictions App Review
One of the biggest challenges with Facebook is keeping up with all of your friend’s status updates throughout the day. Depending on the number of friends you have (and how often they post), it could take some serious time to stay on top of the latest news.  Friends Aloud helps solve this dilemma by reading your friend’s Facebook status updates aloud to you, freeing you to multitask with ease!  Intuitive text-to-speech software reads messages with remarkable accuracy, including smiley faces and abbreviations.  You can play, pause, rewind, and fast forward through the posts easily, and the app will even continue running in the background.  Friends Aloud has many customization options to cater to your preferences.  You can choose how many updates to read at one time, which updates to ignore, and even how many comments to read!  

It is necessary to note that Friends Aloud will just read your Facebook friend’s statuses aloud.  It does not support the ability for you to comment on your friend’s statuses – you have to log into your regular Facebook app to do that.  Even with this minor limitation, this app definitely fulfills a need that many of us have.  It is also interesting to point out that the developers of Friends Aloud are working on a Tweets Aloud app that will enter beta testing next week – we’re hoping it is just as intuitive and customizable.  Become a social networking multitasking master with Friends Aloud!

AppDictions Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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