Speech Central AI Voice Reader 4+

Text to audio: Book, PDF, Web

Labsii

    • 4.5 • 102 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Feature set that exceeds the competition, no subscription for the premium tier with the free tier that can be customised to be limited by the quantity or by the quality, that is the reason why you'll love Speech Central. Here are just some of our outstanding features:

◦ The best text-to-speech experience - our proprietary engine significantly enhances the output of Apple's voices and AI voices by infusing their readings with emotion and variation.

◦ The best PDF support in text to speech apps - your reading flow will not be interrupted by footers, headers, footnotes, in text citations and long web links as they are detected by the advanced artificial intelligence in most cases. No other app has all those features. Even the scanned PDF documents are imported with titles recognised.

◦ The best web support in text to speech apps - for the first time you can listen everything as both articles and headlines (including RSS feeds) are supported. Articles can be added from the headlines page for fully uninterrupted flow or from Safari. And you can send articles from the desktop browser with the Pocket extension.

◦ The widest support for documents/office and e-book formats.

◦ Knowledge and text annotation tools built-in.

◦ Import the text from the physical books with the camera.

◦ The widest choice of options to customize the voice, appearance and various other parameters.

◦ Sync playlist items across Apple devices including with the macOS app and the current position in the text.

◦ Apple Watch app that can play the content independently of the main app.

◦ Export the text with annotations to .docx format

◦ Functions of audio buttons can be customized for high productivity and accessibility. The widest selection of tools to control the speed and browse the text that is read aloud.

◦ The app can be used with dozens of languages that have text-to-speech support on the device with automatic language detection from the content.

◦ Export the text to the audio file.

◦ The best in class accessibility. It is completely free when used with VoiceOver and tested to be accessible by legally blind users.

◦ Your data stays truly private, we collect only analytics data with no identifiable reference to the user or imported content even when the syncing is enabled.

◦ Track the Mindfulness time in the Health app

The app is installed on over 250,000 devices and with consistent ratings above 4 stars Speech Central it is one of the leading global text-to-speech brands. It was nominated for the best iOS accessible app in 2020 and 2017 on AppleVis, the leading authority in the field of accessibility on Apple devices.

By moving your reading activities to commuting, walking, running, doing the housework or another activity you can save an hour each day. You'll also save eyes for better things while having your battery and data plan last significantly longer. Keeping the screen off grants that you won't get into the internet addiction and waste your time on unwanted things, and thus it can also help people with ADHD.

The app can be used as an assistive technology and helper for people with visual impairments (eyesight problems) and disabilities like dyslexia.

Supported document types are: PDF (including scanned documents), Microsoft Word (.docx), Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt, .odp), .html, .mhtml, .webarchive, .txt, .rtf. E-books in the .epub format are supported.

Get the app now and enjoy the most convenient text to audio!

Notes:
- The free version has a daily limitation in the number of articles that you can add to it which is removed by purchasing the Pro add-on.
- Some features are available only on the latest version of the operating system.
- The license is valid only for the iOS/watchOS. Other operating systems have separate licenses.
- DRM protected books (e.g. Kindle books) are locked to their respective vendor apps and cannot be imported into the app.

What’s New

Version 15.1.0

- Word highlighter for Microsoft AI voices
- OpenAI HD models

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
102 Ratings

102 Ratings

Shmurt. ,

I’ve been using this app since October 2022

I use this app every single day. I love to read but I also want that experience where I can listen to it whilst I’m reading. This has resulted me to become a faster reader with better comprehension because of this app. However I have suggestions on what will make the app better and the user experience better: This will be a game changer for everyone. 1. There are a few bugs and causes my app to crash I’m using a 14 pro. For example one bug is that the voice reader stops and then changes to the default one for no reason. Other times I have to deal with crashes. The word’s highlighting when your reading are sometimes off and don’t match. 2. Another thing is, Add human like-higher quality voices for premium users pre-installed. Thanks to the devs this is an amazing app non the less.

Developer Response ,

Hi, first thanks for your nice review. One thing to understand is that the app doesn’t provide any voices and it can’t as their general pricing is far above this price rank. As such out of box the app can offer only Apple’s voices. It is correct that sometimes they don’t provide exactly precise feedback on the reading position (but at least due to smart tricks in Speech Central those problems do not cumulate like in most other apps - in them once the glitch appears it never disappears and multiple glitches add up). Other than that the app supports Microsoft neural voices and if you register on their website you can use them. Also in iOS 16 Apple has changed their voices quite a bit and as a side effect there are some crashing bugs in them that may affect minority of users, according to the feedback that I receive. It seems that most of those problems have been fixed by Apple in iOS 16.4, so try to update. Other than that if problems persist you can always workaround bugs from Apple voices by using Microsoft voices.

The Mr. Boyce ,

What happened? Chapters have disappeared?

There was a recent April 2022 update and the chapters of all my .epubs have disappeared.

I hope you are working on addressing thos bug. It is major. I cannot access *any* .epubs.

The app now *only* reads online articles.

This is a *great* pity, as it was *previously* perfect.

Developer Response ,

This has been fixed already within one day since the problem has appeared if you still haven’t received the update please go to the App Store and manually update the app.

Max Milne ,

Highly rated

This app fulfils my needs as a PDF to voice reader for study. Turns my texts almost into Podcast like learning experiences. I had difficulties using the App and the support contacted me within 48 hours which was appreciated. I’d suggested that the way to select voices was more intuitive. You go into the menu and click which one you want as the first step. They have random or multi select options. I’d add single voice selection as the first option, currently that option does not exist.

Developer Response ,

As said in an email there are 5 other known users that are affected by this Apple's bug, and there is a workaround that allows you to pick the voice in the app. Only one of them wrote a review when reported and he gave 5 stars. I understand that you wanted to share your current frustration and express it that way, but it is not necessary - all emails are answered before the review and negative review just brings unnecessary negative atmosphere to the conversation and can't help in any way as maximal effort is already put in each case. If you can use the app as advised, please update the rating, thanks!

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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