PDFSpeech 4+
Read more with text-to-speech.
One Kerato
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- $9.99
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Description
PDFSpeech will help you read more. It taps into text-to-speech (TTS) technology built into macOS to help you zip through PDFs. With great tools at hand, you’ll look forward to reading a book cover to cover, or read an entire chapter in one sitting. PDFSpeech strives to banish the effort involved in reading, and it adds incredible momentum to help you complete even your most daunting reading tasks.
PDFSpeech offers:
• Intuitive controls: Double-click any word in the PDF Document to start text-to-speech from that point forward. Double-click in whitespace or margins to stop.
• Create PDFs from your content: Bring in rich text content on the clipboard, or just a few pages selected from the Preview app. It's easy to get started with any of your content.
• Build PDF Packs for Organized Reading: Automatically appends PDFs, creates internal table-of-contents to aid in navigation, automatically saves to disk. Quickly convert your reading list into a PDF Pack.
• Print to PDFSpeech from any app: Supports printing to PDF from any macOS app including Safari's awesome Reader view for clutter-free web pages, or reports from Microsoft Word.
• Listener-friendly design: Smartly avoids reading header & footer text, and has a Fast Skip mode that only reads sentences at start & end of paragraphs which is great when you’re only skimming to grab the big picture,
• Customizable TTS engine: Provide custom word mappings to guide the TTS engine, so it doesn't mispronounce the same words over & over, and get on your nerves!
What’s New
Version 1.8
Use a new single-key shortcut "r" to draw a rectangle annotation on the page. Click and drag to the right and downwards to specify the rectangle. The rectangle annotation is only available when PDFSpeech is running on macOS 10.13 (macOS High Sierra) and newer.
Use single key shortcut "z" to undo the last annotation.
Note that the rectangle annotation cannot be selected within PDFSpeech. So the only way to undo it is immediately after, by using the "z" key. The rectangle is saved as a standard PDF annotation so it can be selected, edited, or removed in any PDF editor, including macOS’s built-in Preview app.
You can now read the PDF in dark mode! Use View > Toggle Dark Mode for PDF Contents, or use the shortcut "Command D".
The PDFSpeech User Guide has been updated.
Ratings and Reviews
Maybe some updates
It's a very good app however it doesn't give me the ability to read all the different types of documents. I can't read the documents sent by my Prof.
An indespensible app for those who read
Personally, I get eye strain after a few minutes of reading PDFs. I've used vBookz (another app) for years but the fastest it'd go was 250 wpm. This one goes up to 300 , which is more in line with my intended reading speed.
My suggestion for a further release would be to be able to change out or to somehow add to the voice library ; while the MacOS voice library is OK, better voices are out there in the wild that are more natural sounding. That said, this is otherwise quite similar to VoiceDream on the iPad [with the exception that VoiceDream does have many other voices]. It works nicely!
Custom pronounciations for best TTS available
tested a bunch of apps and this ones lets you customize how the voice pronounces certain words or elements.
Other readers will read bullet points as "oh" "small black square" "arrow" etc. but the ability to change it to not pronounce these makes this the only usable pdf speech tool for long bodies of work.
Especially useful if you are in a niche field that uses certain abreviations or symbols. i can make § read as "section" for law. I can have it read "DGCL" as "Deleware general corporation law" etc.
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Information
- Seller
- Jose John
- Size
- 4.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.7 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Jose John (onekerato.com)
- Price
- $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.