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.
HideShow More...
Screenshots
Voice Dream FAQ
Is Voice Dream free?
Yes, Voice Dream is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Voice Dream legit?
⚠️ Warning: Multiple users of Voice Dream have mentioned scam or fraud. Investigate thoroughly before using this app.
I use this app daily for all of my PDF reading needs. The voices are super natural sounding, and it literally literally helps me so much daily. I looked for other PDF readers, and this one was better than any other one I found by far. I use it on multiple devices and love it, and literally use it every single day. Thank you to the developers! Initially bought it, and then the developers were looking into making it a subscription model, and then reversed that course. I really really appreciate them, listening to their customers and not turning this into a subscription app. Thank you!
Can’t even test it without paying.
Very odd subscription flow.
- I exited the payment process - they offered a discount, which I exited - I added a pdf and attempted to try it out & it doesn’t even play a sample.
- it instead asks, please subscribe to use.
- I then go to subscribe & it doesn’t give me a special offer.
Why would I pay for it if I can’t even test it out, at all? I don’t even know if I like it.
App no longer works
I can no longer process news articles and customer service isn’t helpful.
Don’t pay
The Kindle reader “beta” is useless. Save your 60$ and buy a Fire tablet. They are not great but way better than this buggy clunker.
They DON'T listen to their users so I encourage everyone to delete this app
6/23/24-The drama continues. This greedy Developer has removed the Edit function and made it available only as a subscription feature. If you're a legacy user who purchased this feature years ago, sorry but you're out of luck. Then the Developer had the audacity to "trick" enraged users into thinking he'd restored the Edit Feature but he didn't; it was just a ploy to fool us all. You still have to subscribe. Again, I encourage everyone to report him for TOS violation and then DROP his app. As Mentioned by Another User: Apples TOS 3.1.2(a) states the developer: "If you are changing your existing app to a subscription-based business model, you should not take away the primary functionality existing users have already paid for. For existing customers who purchased the app, click on "report and issue" and use the "fraud/scam" option to report the developer for violating the terms. "report and issue" is under the [information] section.
Amazing!
This is a life changer!
I tried a few
This is by far the best. I tried a couple of 3-day trials with reading speeds up to 300 wpm; this performed the best. Plus, it gives you access to your online Kindle library (I have yet to try, but I'll follow up with the review when I do).
One oddity I found with it is when it sees the capitalized word WHO, it treats it as an acronym. Any heading that is all capitalized, and where WHO appears, it doesn't mean the World Health Organization.
This App Is Excellent, But There Is Another Problem With the Update.
The app will not load new files after the update. Please fix.
New issue: After the update, title changes won’t stick. I just spent over thirty minutes fixing a numbering issue, only for the original numbers to immediately roll back. It’s extremely frustrating. Please fix this as soon as possible.
Greedy developer
Suddenly paid users are asked to pay subscriptions.
I say No and will remove this app forever.
Stay far away!
Old features NOT working anymore
The pronunciation dictionary no longer works. If the app is mispronouncing a word, selecting that word, tapping on the menu options that pop up until you select “pronounce“ takes you into the pronunciation dictionary, which allows you to phonetically spell out the correct pronunciation. You can still do all of this, however, when you replay the text correct pronunciation that you just saved does not play. In other words, it is a function that worked previously, but no longer works and is very likely do to this developer making changes to the app. This was a feature that worked perfectly previously, but no longer works. Inside of the pronunciation dictionary when you tap ““ to confirm that the word is being pronounced correctly, it indeed does play correctly however, when you go back to the actual text of your document and hit play the same old mispronunciation is present.
