NovelVoice 17+

Novelbin support

Would be great if it supported novelbin

Developer Response ,

NovelBin is now supported in v11.17.0

Very useful but now buggy

This app worked really well, at first. But just recently it started having problems. It can’t properly recognize the formatting on royal road anymore and just reads the chapter title, instead of the whole chapter Or sometimes will sporadically only recognize one out of five chapters Please please fix the bugs. If this app worked more consistently, I’d even pay for it

Update——

The recent update improved the situation but did not fix it. It did add a new error message.

It’s gone from maybe 1 in five chapters being listenable To maybe 3 out of five .

Developer Response ,

As for the page feed problem, I think we were probably able to fix it in v9.18.0.

Better Than The Alternatives

This is a good TTS app but it needs a few improvements. First, settings like Voice Rate are hard to control. The difference between 0.52 and 0.58 is significant but it’s incredibly difficult to move the slider that small amount. Second, the general GUI could be rethought. The elements at the top of the screen when you’re reading a book are too squished together. I find myself clicking on everything trying to find the control I’m looking for, and that includes on other screens as well. Third, the Royal Road website doesn’t function properly (can’t click the site menu to get to the search page). I can’t tell if the embedded browser is broken or if this app’s overlays are blocking the menu button. The workaround is to use your normal browser to find the story then paste the link into the app. Fourth, it randomly stops reading, seemingly normally near the end of a chapter. This doesn’t happen very often and it’s trivial to resume, but it happens just often enough to note it here (this isn’t the sleep timer going off).

One thing I like is the 2nd voice for quoted sections. That makes it easier to tell when a character is thinking to himself or talking out loud. The voice doesn’t change for all quoted sections… but when it does it’s a nice break from the main voice. As all you TTS users know, a single voice can drone on and on. Having two voices makes the TTS less annoying over the long term. Also the ads are short enough and infrequent enough to not be annoying. It took me a few tries to realize you cannot put a Royal Road book’s main page on your bookshelf. Instead you have to go to the first chapter directly in order to download it. Thanks for making this app. Edit: Newest update fixes the controls. Thanks for taking my feedback into account.