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.
Kids aren’t the only ones who like being read to. Whether listening to a story on your commute or having your big work presentation read back to you, easily turn text into speech.
Almost Perfect
Jizzis'Js
I can share any page from the web through Voice Reader in the Article option which is fine. I can do the same for the PDF book standing in my Books application from Apple and open the option PDF in Voice Reader which is amazing. Then when I try the same things for the ePub file in Books the sharing doesn’t work in Voice Reader it shows only the title of the book in the Full Text option and this point misses the perfect...I bought the premium voice Salli (English, United States) from Ivona and the voice read the text like usual, like any other voice could read the text and then at some random part or some books I choose to read the voice Salli start to read up only each letter of the text instead of reading words to make a sentence a the end.By the way I love your app and I am sure your doing the best for make it running properly.
Groundbreaking app for active reading
CHowieson
Voice Dream Reader reader supports sight reading of text to suit your print preference by allowing you to fully customise how the text is displayed in text view. If you require a large font you can easily increase the font size and it reflows into a single column -greatly improving readability by removing the need to pan to bring the text into view. You also have control over font, text colour, page colour in fact all colours including highlight text. Voice Dream Reader lets you control the reading simply clicking where you want it to start reading, with controls to skip forward and back by reading unit which you can set as sentence, page, etc. In addition to comfortable sight reading and reactive text-to-speech, Voice Dream Reader also lets you take notes directly into the text when reading, thus supporting active reading. The notes appear in text view and original view. You can happily the add notes as you go along, and then when ready, extract all your notes, with the associated highlighted text, and send these to Word or another app of your choice. This therefore is a powerful tool for students and researchers. The Voice Dreamer Reader team are also responsive to email and from my experience I have found them to be fully committed to delivering a groundbreaking inclusive reading tool.
WOW
Richie pro
It’s not often I’m this impressed with an app. I have felt very let down lately by a number of developers. First this app works, it does what it says on the tin and it does it extremely well! Second, it’s not a subscription plan and so far I’ve not seen any hidden purchases. Third it is value for money and seems to be priced fairly. I’ve tested it to the extreme. I took a previously scanned 190 page document and imported it. The app asked if o wanted to run OCR, so I did. Within a minute or so I had exported the text to my written app of choice. The spoken text is the best I’ve heard to date (There are a choice of voices so have a play until you find one that suits). There were no mistakes. I’ve tried other text sources with strange fonts etc... same results. There are features I would like to see, such as a better file manager etc... it allows for folders but via a drop down, this is perfectly adequate though. I bought the suit with the writer and the scanner etc... it’s so good I’d claim the use of wizardry!!!!! I’ll be recommending this app to my University, work colleagues and whenever I get the chance. I would be extremely happy to see a Mac OSX version .
This update for Voice Dream enhances your Dropbox experience and fixes a few bugs.
• Improved Dropbox importing for large folders, with options to load or add everything at once.
• Fixed highlight colour controls so they display correctly on newer versions of iOS.
• Improved AirPods, lock screen, and playback control reliability.
• Fixed a few crashes and improved overall stability.
Thank you for using Voice Dream!
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please get in touch with us and we’ll take a look.
support@voicedream.com
Version 5.5.5
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 .
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