Narrator: Read Aloud Books 4+

Perfection

This app gives us back the text to speech voice that IOS used to have a couple of updates ago except better. You can read the book or click on any line and it will start reading there. I have no idea why the developers of Apple decided to remove this better text to speech voice from the standard settings but I’m glad to have it back again. The other big app(speechify) only has the new voice iOS voice as free and its very robotic and awkward and reads punctuation out loud so don’t bother with it. This app is the best! And free! Thank you!

I’ve only used it for epubs so far and it was very smooth and easy!

Phenomenal text-to-speech

Edit: i updated to ios17 and when i turn my phone off, the background play pauses. It’s really annoying since sometimes it pauses and othertimes it’ll continue playing, and I can’t figure out what’s triggering it specifically.

I use it to listen to my epubs and the voices are all standard iPhone AI voices. They work just fine, and you could listen to any amount for free, offline, and off app. I have two stories uploaded, both well over 400k words, and I’ve been a happy listener since. Though, the sizes are so huge the book files are separated into parts. There IS a subscription premium, but that’s only if you want to make an audio file from your files to save somewhere else without any character limits. But you don’t really need it if you plan to listen on your phone. If I could suggest any improvements, they’d be minor like the ability to create folders or different file views as they’re only in list form right now.

Réponse du développeur ,

Hello! Some users experienced this issue - reinstalling the app solved the problem. Thank you for your feedback.

Best way to listen to free audiobooks

This app is free and just as good if not better than the expensive apps like speechify. My only complaint is that sometimes the app will only play if I leave the app open with my screen still on which I think is a glitch. Other than that it’s amazing.