Voice Dream - Read Aloud - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

2021 Apple Design Award Winner! Voice Dream Reader lets you listen to PDFs, Web pages, and books using text-to-speech. Featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries and part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.

“Both experts recommend Voice Dream Reader as the best app in the text-to-speech space.” - Wired

“This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes

“As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz

“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner

Text-to-Speech
- One premium Acapela voice of your choice free with the purchase of the app.
- 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free.
- 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available through in-app purchases.
- Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.
- All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.

Supported Document Formats
- PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs.
- Web articles.
- Bookshare Books.
- EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are not supported.)
- DAISY text-based books and audiobook.
- Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format.
- Rich text and image support for all documents.

Built-in Scanner
- Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech.
- State-of-the-art A.I. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions.
- Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.
- Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported.

Reading Styles
- Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run.
- Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention.
- Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus.
- Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word.
- Pac-Man. Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension.
- High contrast and large font size for low vision readers.
- Optimized for VoiceOver, Braille and switch control.

Tools
- Recognize text for scanned PDF documents.
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and annotation. Highlights and notes can be exported.
- Full-text search.
- Built-in dictionary.
- Automatically skip text in PDF header and footer.

Content Sources
- Native support for Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote.
- Native access to Bookshare.
- Safari extension to save Web pages and Web addresses.
- Support for Box and OneDrive via iOS Document Picker.

Library Synchronization
- Your entire library, including folders, reading locations, bookmarks and annotations are synchronized across all your devices using iCloud Drive

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

A subscription is required to use Voice Dream Reader.

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In-Apps

Annual Subscription

£49.99

Amy (Ivona British English Voice)

£4.99

Hugh (NeoSpeech US English Voice)

£4.99

Emma (Ivona British English Voice)

£4.99

Brian (Ivona British English Voice)

£4.99

Graham (Acapela British English Voice)

£4.99

Rachel (Acapela British English Voice)

£4.99

Bridget (NeoSpeech British English Voice)

£4.99

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User Rating

4.32 out of 5

384 ratings in United Kingdom

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Reviews

Amazing app

Great tool for dyslexics. Helped me get a first class degree.

Part of my life now

I can’t live without this app. My only gripe is crashes when loading huge ePub books. I like reading web novels and some of these are huge (350 hour monolithic LitRPG sagas with html tables and such). It becomes impossible to switch to rich text mode and I’m stuck with basic text only, which I don’t really mind but it would be great if that worked. I know it’s a daunting technical challenge to load such huge files, but maybe partition it per chapter and only load the relevant data needed to display the part I’m currently reading? It’s a great app overall and totally worth a purchase. Also, I can’t thank the devs enough for the constant updates and QoL improvements they constantly add.

Very impressive

This program does what it says, and does it well. Unlike similar programs, I’ve tried it works flawlessly. I use it mainly on my iPad. Other programs seem to have pauses miss words. This one doesn’t jump or miss words. Very satisfied.

Robotic voice

No way of trialing unless a yearly subscription is purchase. I have purchased but the voices are so bad, even the premium voices. Can’t even get a refund. I do not recommend this.

Simply brilliant.

As a visually impaired PhD student, I have to read and take notes practically all day. This app increased my productivity so much I can’t even start to say. The note-taking and highlighting function is really intuitive for someone used with voiceover and works perfectly, no crashes, never going back to the wrong spot in the text. The OCR function is the best I’ve ever used, and all in one app! Plus: it uses very little of my devices’ batery. If I could suggest something it would bean option to export thehighlights and notes together with the text, as a word document, for example, so I can share an annotated text with sighted colleagues, for example. But that’s maybe asking too much. Not the cheapest of resources but I feel grateful to pay for something with such an inclusive and useful design for visually impaired screen reader users.Thank you so much to the developers. I can’t believe it took me so long to find out about Voice Dream!

Deceptive

This formerly apparently nice app is now a “free” download that sets up an in-app-subscription that would deduct £60 from the users account a week after downloading (and then every year). Charging more than a Netflix subscription for what is an admittedly nice wrapper around Apple’s “spoken content” feature seems brazen.

Best all round

I have been using this app for about 10 years and it is easily one of the best, most stable and most used apps of mine. A steal at the price. Integrates brilliantly with Pocket (getpocket.com). You can also copy the clipboard (that is any text) into a a VoiceStream document ... you can then listen to this with your favourite voice. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

scam

free premium voice not downloading. its a rip off. avoid.

This is excellent - here’s why

I have to give this five stars because it’s the most complete TTS and almost an alternative audiobook app. The integrated controls, the configuration, support for Dropbox etc make this the most feature complete solution. If you don’t want to pay the Premium then Speech Central has most of these features for a lower price. Speech Central is also very active and approachable on Reddit and Twitter. The extra Ivona voice did set me back £5 extra but I knew it would and it’s money well spent. Although the voice of Speechify is still the most natural there are too many downsides. Start with Speech Central and make sure you check with them if you think features are missing. If you want what I consider currently the best then choose this one. HTH.

Nefarious , money hungry company, they’ll try to scam you.

You purchase a previous verisimilitude of the app, and they don’t let you access it because they increased the price and they want you to pay that increase! Don’t do it the app is not worth it at all.

Store Rankings

Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Grossing	Peru Education	63
Top Grossing	Chile Education	65
Top Grossing	Greece Education	68
Top Grossing	Brazil Education	81
Top Grossing	Germany Education	86

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