Voice Dream - Read Aloud 4+

Text to Speech Reader

Voice Dream LLC

    • 4.4 • 312 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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.

What’s New

Version 4.31.0

Good news! Legacy users will continue to be able to use Voice Dream

- Add login button to Settings with Reset Password button
- Fix issue with files not finishing downloading
- Add support for AU file format
- Fix DAISY document parsing bug

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
312 Ratings

312 Ratings

Editors' Notes

Kids aren’t the only ones who like being read to. Whether you’re listening to a story on your commute or you’d like to hear your big work presentation read back to you, Voice Dream Reader can helpfully turn text into speech.

ArianOnline ,

Request for Rich Text Highlighting Feature

I have been a loyal user of Voice Dream for over seven years now, and while I appreciate its many features, there is one issue that I would like to address. Currently, the app only allows for highlighting when reading an epub file using their Plain Text format. While this may work for some books, it can be problematic for others, especially those with tables, bold text, formatted computer codes, and many other formatting styles. This can cause the Plain Text format to ruin the overall structure of the epub file.

I have noticed that other epub readers allow for highlighting in the original Rich Text format, which preserves the book's formatting style. I would love to see Voice Dream implement this feature as well, so that I can highlight my favorite books without worrying about losing their unique formatting.

Overall, I am a big fan of Voice Dream and appreciate all of its helpful features. I simply urge the developers to consider adding this one feature to make the app even more user-friendly and versatile.

Thank you.

HarryWillInsistOnTryB4Buy ,

Very buggy on iPhone 14 Pro…

On the iPhone, 14 pro, the voices sound richer, the text feels easier on the eye… But all this is undone by bugginess. For example, when voicing a PDF, the phone’s system often voice takes over. In other words, the voice that I might choose, for example, Moira, or Daniel, becomes inactive while the terrible “accessibility“ voice reads out the text. When I tried to fix this, voice dream simply refused to read the PDF. Nothing I could do, no button I could press. I dreaded the prospect of contacting tech support. (As we all know, tech support is often time-consuming with the support people speaking poor and heavily accented English. Businesses get away with it because most people do not want to be accused of “racism“.)
_____ Whether the fault is with voice dream, or with Apple’s system, I don’t know. But yesterday I was in a situation in which I was totally locked out of my phone. It had something to do with the voice/accessibility feature. Trying to key in my passcode using the on screen keys just caused the phone to call out key numbers. I happened to be near my service provider’s store, so I rushed there in a panic, and my panic turned into even more panic, when even the staff were unable to fix the problem. Eventually they did, but told me not to go anywhere near “Accessibility“.

App Privacy

The developer, Voice Dream LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • User Content
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

  • Siri

    Get things done within this app using just your voice.

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