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.
Free version is better than other text to audio apps
Mr.Dweeb
Pros:User friendly.Has a lot of settings for a customised experience.Allows reading from pasted texts, uploaded texts and online links.Cons:Skip in-text citation doesn’t work.Could use more natural sounding voices like those available for edge or natural reader.Overall, it’s funny how certain options were exactly what I would want in a reader such as the skip in-text citations option. The citations make reading annoying and make readers lose focus on the sentence.
The app failed all the customers now and breaking the law
Ahmed alarishi
The customers were happy before, and the app was good and all that, but now after hundreds of people bought it, they decided to switch the whole thing into a subscription system with zero consideration to the people who bought it before, no regular access to what they had before, no treatment, no nothing.This is an unacceptable decision that is breaking the App Store guidelines and we demand that this company fixes this, and at least give us the features that we had before and then they shall feel free to limit any newer features, but we shall have the experience that we had before and we would either succeeded or Apple itself shall take a decision regarding this matter. shameful end for a previously successful and brilliant project..
Very helpful
mosalah91
I am really happy with this masterpiece app which helps me knowing the spelling of some words instead of going to dictionary and listen to the spelling.And for who will buy the app , you should buy the sound (Eric), it is more loud and organized in the talking.By the way you should also buy the scanner app who belongs to Voice Reader.
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 .
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 based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More