Voice Dream Reader

Voice Dream Reader

By Voice Dream LLC

  • Category: Education
  • Release Date: 2022-04-26
  • Current Version: 2.0.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 295.29 MB
  • Developer: Voice Dream LLC
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 11.0

Description

Voice Dream Reader lets you listen to PDF documents, Web articles, and eBooks using text-to-speech. Although it is designed for people with visual impairment, dyslexia, ADHD, and other reading challenges, everyone can benefit. Your documents become audiobooks, so you can read while you walk, exercise or do chores. For productivity-minded people, with some practice, you can read at twice your sight-reading speed. Unlike audiobooks, you can highlight, take notes, and see the words as they're spoken to improve comprehension and retention. Voice Dream Reader for iOS is a 2021 Apple Design Award Winner, and it's been featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries. Using the award-winning iOS app as building blocks, we wrote Voice Dream Reader Desktop from ground up as a native macOS app with a completely redesigned user interface. The result is a full-featured, desktop-class application fully optimized for the Mac. ACCOLADES "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 FEATURES Library - Manage all your reading material in one place. - Organize in folders. Search, filter and sort. - Keep a Reading List so you never run out of things to read. - Synchronize your library, reading locations, bookmarks and notes across all your Apple devices. - Your library stays private on your device, or in iCloud Drive if you synchronize. No-one else has access. Text-to-Speech - 75 macOS text-to-speech voices in 27 languages. - All Acapela voices in a language of your choice. - All voices are offline to protect your privacy. - Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation rules. - Save speech to audio files. Document Formats - PDF, plain text, and Google Docs. - Text recognition for scanned PDF. - Skip repeating headers and footers in PDF. - Web articles via Safari Extension. - Bookshare books via built-in interface. - EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are encrypted.) - DAISY text-based books and audiobooks. - Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format. - Native access for Dropbox and Google Drive. Reading Styles - Highlight spoken word to improve comprehension and retention. - Change font, colors, character and line spacing, and margins. - Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help with focus. - Two speed-reading modes: Pac-Man and RSVP. - Optimized for accessibility including VoiceOver. - High contrast and large font size for low vision readers. Studying Tools - Bookmark, highlight and take notes. - Export highlights and notes. - Full-text search. - Built-in dictionary. Notes for iOS Users - Ivona and NeoSpeech voices do not run on macOS. - Pocket and Instapaper support is coming soon. - Evernote does not support third party access on macOS. SUBSCRIPTION Voice Dream Reader Desktop requires a subscription, but we offer a 7-day free trial before you get charged, so you can find out if this app is right for you. The subscription is separate from Voice Dream Reader for iOS. Please visit our blog (http://www.voicedream.com/blog) to find out why this app requires a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Reviews

  • Great app with one flaw-doesn’t pronounce the word “about” right

    4
    By KYYoyoC
    Been using this for a year for the first year of my PhD studies. This app is probably the best TTS reader on the market right now. A flaw that makes me rate it 4 stars: it just can’t pronounce the word “about” correctly, and this happens across multiple textbooks I have in a serif font similar to Times New Roman. even set a custom pronunciation for the word without success. Perhaps this is at the text recognition stage? Given this is such a common word, it really takes me out of the flow of reading too often. Dear developer, please fix this.

  • Doesn’t read Aria labels

    1
    By not4u2do
    Doesn’t read Aria labels so I don’t know how they can be asking $10/mo. I’m trying to find assistive tech to recommend to readers of our eBooks. This app will not be recommended.

  • Best app on the planet

    5
    By Karriem Muhammad
    Voice dream has been my go to App since It first came out I purchased every single voice that was in English and absolutely love this app. I am a lifetime member and the Owner saved my butt allowing lifetime membership. I can’t thank him enough for providing an app that helps auditory learners to still be productive. Buy this app its the best on the market I’ve tried them all.

  • Voice downloads do not work

    1
    By Blunderbuss207
    This used to be a decent app for reading aloud, but lately, whenever I try to download a voice within the app now, it says “Failed to download file”. There’s no indication of the URL it was trying to download from nor is there any more specific error message. No support is offered on the product web site, even though I purchased a subscription! A Google search for [support site:voicedreamreader.com] returns “Your search - support site:voicedreamreader.com - did not match any documents”.

  • Game Changer

    5
    By The Babette
    I am grad student recently diagnosed with adhd. Being able to listen to my course readings while doing other tasks (laundry, walking, etc), has been a game changer for me. I also love the feature that allows me to read along to the voice, especially for more challenging topics. Grateful that this service exists. Thank you!

  • Great app for text to speech!

    5
    By Ouvyt
    I use it almost every day.

  • Questionable business practices

    1
    By Smurfberrypies
    In September ’24 I went looking for a text-to-speech solution, and came across Voice Dream Reader. I struggled with getting it configured for my desktop (I’ve been a digital product manager for 15 years), and finally gave up when I found myself in a closed loop of trying to get the app to verify my purchase and activate my subscription. By all intents and purposes, my purchase did not appear to have gone through. I moved on to another solution. Fast forward to January ’25, when I discovered that, in fact, the subscription purchase DID go through, and the application STILL does not recognize my subscription (app startup screen: “Already have an account?”). A terrible—and apparently broken—onboarding workflow... at least for me. I’d steer clear. There are a lot of other good solutions out there.

  • Overall good - but some glitches

    4
    By BKneuros
    There are some disturbances with some of the readings and require restarting the program for the clarity to be restored.

  • only option of its kind

    5
    By Anonymous #92746
    if you use pdfs for academicwork, there is no other app that does what it can.

  • Subscription Really

    1
    By Sultan08540
    You people are so greedy. Terrible app

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