We’ve completely revamped our on-device speech engine with the latest Pocket TTS model for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, delivering our biggest leap in voice quality yet! • Dramatically Higher Voice Quality: Experience far richer, clearer, and more lifelike speech that makes long listening sessions effortless. • Fast Audio Generation: Noticeably faster speech synthesis with near-instant playback response. • Natural Intonation & Rhythm: Pauses, inflections, and pacing sound more human and context-aware than ever. • Smoother, Artifact-Free Audio: Enjoy crisp, studio-grade speech synthesis without robotic clipping or audio glitches.

- Reading now highlights the full sentence, with smoother scrolling as narration moves on. - Extended support for smaller iPhones, including iPhone SE, so buttons stay reachable. - UI Improvements

OpenVox Reader 1.6 brings our biggest update yet, featuring multilingual on-device voices, deep layout personalization, reading habit tracking, and studio-quality speech flow. Multilingual On-Device Voices • Pocket TTS model is updated and now speaks 5 languages: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. • Choose from over 100 expressive voice profiles with lossless audio conditioning, or clone and create custom voices in any supported language—all completely offline. • Improved HD voice quality for English using Pocket TTS Advanced Typography & E-Ink Mode • Fine-tune your layout: customize page margins, line spacing, text justification, and font weights from Thin to Black. • Evening Comfort: relax your eyes before bed with a warm Blue Light Filter slider (0–100%). • E-Ink Theme: enjoy a high-contrast, distraction-free monochrome reader mode inspired by e-paper displays. Daily Goals & Reading Rhythm • Set daily reading targets in minutes, pages, or words, tracked with an animated progress ring. • Visualize your consistency with an interactive monthly calendar heatmap and peak reading times. • Compare today's progress with your 7-day average, all-time average, and best reading days—100% private on your device. Natural Cadence & Instant Resume • Smarter AI grouping: chapter titles, blockquotes, and dialogues are automatically recognized and voiced with natural pacing. • Improved pause calibration around dashes, ellipses, and initials (e.g., Dr., Mr., J.M. Turner). • Smart speech caching delivers instant playback resume without waiting for audio to re-synthesize. • Fixed pronunciation of years. Polish & Fixes • Added an interactive feature walkthrough to help you get the most out of OpenVox. • Compact Pro status badge in Settings, reclaiming screen space for active subscribers.

• New Focus Mode for distraction-free listening. • Dedicated Chapters button on the top reader bar. • Text size controls moved to the reader menu for an uncluttered layout. • Improved button responsiveness and touch targets throughout the reader.

- Fixed issues when importing large and lengthy books. - Added Tile and List layout options for both the Document Library and Voice Library. - Added a draggable chapter scroller for faster navigation through large ebooks. - Improved reading cursor accuracy and synchronization - Improved Pocket TTS audio buffering for smoother, more continuous narration. - Includes additional performance improvements, reliability enhancements, and bug fixes.

- Smoother Pocket TTS playback, fixed clicks between passages. - New option to skip PDF headers, footers, and page numbers. - Improved pronunciation of scaled currency values such as “$24.5 million.” - Newly created custom voices from settings menu now appear and activate immediately. - Additional stability and performance improvements.

- Added Pocket TTS support for custom English voices, making it easier to create and use your own voices. - Added Saved Sentences so you can bookmark the current sentence, revisit saved passages, filter them, jump back instantly, or remove them later. - Added Search in Document with result previews and direct navigation to matching text. - Improved EPUB bookmarks and search so chapter positions remain accurate while keeping memory usage efficient. - Added playback speeds from 0.5x to 2.5x with increments of 0.1x, including new presets at 0.5x, 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x, and 2.5x. - Improved faster playback with pitch preservation, better buffering, voice previews, and more accurate elapsed and remaining time. - Opening another document now automatically pauses the document currently playing. - Fixed Reading Stats so listening time only counts when audio is actually playing. - Includes additional reliability and reader experience improvements.

- Improved speech accuracy with fewer skipped words using an updated higher-fidelity on-device AI model. - Smoother narration with fewer pauses between sentences and reading segments. - New optional "Delete after reading" setting for automatically removing completed text, link, paste, and scan documents. PDFs and EPUB books are always retained. - Improved decimal pronunciation, so values like 2.75 are read naturally and continuously. - Additional playback and stability improvements.

- Upgraded local speech generation for more efficient playback using the Apple Neural Engine. - Added background playback with Lock Screen and Control Center controls. - Continue listening to documents even when your screen is turned off. - Reader Mode now keeps the screen awake while you read. - Introduced Dynamic Island playback with animated waveform feedback. - Improved iCloud sync, with pull-to-refresh in the Library for manually fetching the latest updates. - Added support for importing documents and web links directly through the iOS Share Sheet. - Improved pronunciation of numbers, dates, currencies, percentages, and decimals. - Improved link importing for better extraction from complex webpages.